Tools

MOBO

MOBO A NEW SOFTWARE FOR MULTIOBJECTIVE BUILDING PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

This tools has been developed through the project "Optimal Multi-Objective Design of Integrated Renewable Energy Systems and Buildings" PI: Ala Hasan (ala.hasan(at)vtt.fi) funded by the Academy of Finland 2010-2015

Main features of MOBO

MOBO is a generic freeware able to handle single and multi-objective optimization problems with continuous and discrete variables and constraint functions

MOBO can be coupled to many external (simulation) programs

It has a an extendable library of different types of algorithms (evolutionary, deterministic, hybrid, exhaustive and random)

It is able to handle multi-modal functions and has automatic constraint handling

The input is fed by a GUI for defining the optimization problem

The user can write the input by algebraic formulas using standard symbols

The output can be viewed by two graphs that show the progress of the optimization

Allows parallel simulation

Portability

Algorithms in MOBO

More information about MOBO can be found from the following conference paper published in BS2013, the 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, France, August 26-28 2013

To get MOBO software download here