This subcommittee of TC 1.5 will focus on new and emerging computer technologies, and its primary mission will be to educate the society on emerging technologies with potential for significant impact on ASHRAE and, where appropriate, to demonstrate their application to the needs of the HVAC industry. The range of activities of this subcommittee are expected to be quite broad and are expected to continually evolve as technologies change and as member interests change. The Emerging Applications Subcommittee will be responsible for developing and taking program and research proposals forward to the Program and Research subcommittees. This subcommittee will serve as successor to the KBS and Computer-Aided Design Subcommittees and will inherit responsibility for ongoing research and program activities of those two subcommittees.

SCOPE

Application areas that are of interest to this subcommittee as they apply to the HVAC industry include

• advanced design tools
• contracting and business
• education and training.
• engineering design productivity
• operating procedures and diagnostics.

Examples of current computer technologies that are of interest to this subcommittee include

• case-based reasoning
• data exchange and interoperability
• data mining and knowledge discovery
• evolutionary computation
• fuzzy logic
• genetic algorithms
• knowledge-based systems
• multimedia
• neural networks
• virtual reality.

The agenda for the subcommittee meeting in Nashville is available here.