TY - THES A1 - Islam, Md Anik T1 - Coupling of agent-based model ‘AgentHomeID’ and energy system model ‘SCOPE-Path’ BT - impact of buildings aggregation level on computation effort and accuracy of results N2 - This study aims to compose a coupling interface between the agent-based model ‘AgentHomeID' and the energy system model ‘SCOPE-Path' to determine building heat supply systems and then evaluate the impact of building aggregations and decentralized heat limits changes on ‘SCOPE-Path' model output and computation effort. First, a coupling interface based on the output of the ‘AgentHomeID' was developed, and then it was used as an input to the existing path optimization model ‘SCOPE-Path.' The first model defined as reference model holds the highest number of building classes and narrow space on decentralized heat limits. Three more different models were derived from the detailed reference model. A reduced number of ten and eight residential building classes were applied to the second and third models. The fourth model derived from the reference model specified a wide range of decentralized heat limits with a similar number of building classes as in the reference model. Finally, the three different models were optimally simulated for the same scenario, given that the third model with eight residential building classes failed to be optimized, and the accuracy of the outputs and computational effort of the optimized models were evaluated. The reference model required the longest computation time. The second model with ten residential building classes showed the most significant reduction in computational effort with varying degrees of accuracy loss. The fourth model with a wide range of decentralized heat limits reduced computational efforts substantially with varying degrees of accuracy loss in outputs. The crucial drawback of this study is the exclusion of solar thermal from the second, third and fourth models to simulate optimally. This approach barred the observation to determine the definite impacts of the building aggregation and wide range of decentralized heat limits distinctly on the ‘SCOPE-Path’ model's output and computation effort. Furthermore, it was insufficient to identify the effects of further building aggregation on ‘SCOPE-Path’ due to the non-optimized third model with eight residential building classes. Y1 - 2021 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-33315 CY - Ingolstadt ER -