Household

A Household Class is defined grouping the basic information on household composition.

class Household(object):
    __init__(self, name, composition, **kwargs):
        self.name = name
        self.composition = composition
        self.cluster = self.__allocate__(composition)
        // defining also:
        self.__occdict__ = {"home":1, "sleeping":2, "absent":3}
        self.__wknd__ = [#]

Instantiation of the Household class includes declaration of the object attributes self.name equal to the given name, self.composition equal to the given composition and self.cluster internally assigning the household members to certain clusters.

Two internal functions are declared for the Household class:

    def __random__(self):
        return composition, appliances

    def __allocate__(self, composition)
        return clusters

which allow the definition of a random Household object if ["random"] is given as composition, and which allocate the the defined composition to respective clusters determined from time use survey data.

##Simulation

A simulate function is included in the Household class

Household.simulate()

which is the main function. This function uses data from objects of the Appliance class, Drawoff class and the StateSpace class defined in the description of data.py for easily loading, writing and storing input data.