Agent-Based Modeling of Sustainable Behaviors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Psychologically Plausible Models in Agent-Based Simulations of Sustainable Behavior

   • Samer Schaat, Wander Jager, Stephan Dickert

   Pages 1-25

3. Interactions Matter: Modelling Everyday Pro-environmental Norm Transmission and Diffusion in Workplace Networks

   • J. Gary Polhill, Tony Craig, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Adina Dumitru et al.

   Pages 27-52

4. Empirically-Derived Behavioral Rules in Agent-Based Models Using Decision Trees Learned from Questionnaire Data

   • N. Sánchez-Maroño, A. Alonso-Betanzos, O. Fontenla-Romero, J. Gary Polhill, T. Craig

   Pages 53-76

5. The Implementation of the Theory of Planned Behavior in an Agent-Based Model for Waste Recycling: A Review and a Proposal

   • Andrea Scalco, Andrea Ceschi, Itad Shiboub, Riccardo Sartori, Jean-Marc Frayret, Stephan Dickert

   Pages 77-97

6. Social Simulations Through an Agent-Based Platform, Location Data and 3D Models

   • Alberto López Barriuso, Fernando De la Prieta, Sara Rodríguez-González, Javier Bajo, Juan M. Corchado

   Pages 99-120

7. An Intersection-Centric Auction-Based Traffic Signal Control Framework

   • Jeffery Raphael, Elizabeth I. Sklar, Simon Maskell

   Pages 121-142

8. AgentDrive: Agent-Based Simulator for Intelligent Cars and Its Application for Development of a Lane-Changing Assistant

   • Martin Schaefer, Michal Čáp, Jiří Vokřínek

   Pages 143-165

9. City Parking Allocations as a Bundle of Society-Aware Deals

   • Francesco Barile, Luigi Bove, Claudia Di Napoli, Silvia Rossi

   Pages 167-186

10. Sustainable Farming Behaviours: An Agent Based Modelling and LCA Perspective

    • Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, Sameer Rege, Antonino Marvuglia, Enrico Benetto

    Pages 187-206

11. Agent-Based Simulation of Electricity Markets: Risk Management and Contracts for Difference

    • Fernando Lopes, Hugo Algarvio, João Santana

    Pages 207-225

12. Energy Management in the Smart Grids via Intelligent Storage Systems

    • Joelle Klaimi, Rana Rahim-Amoud, Leila Merghem-Boulahia

    Pages 227-249

13. Back Matter

    Pages 251-257

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Using the O.D.D. (Overview, Design concepts, Detail) protocol, this title explores the role of agent-based modeling in predicting the feasibility of various approaches to sustainability. The chapters incorporated in this volume consist of real case studies to illustrate the utility of agent-based modeling and complexity theory in discovering a path to more efficient and sustainable lifestyles. The topics covered within include: households' attitudes toward recycling, designing decision trees for representing sustainable behaviors, negotiation-based parking allocation, auction-based traffic signal control, and others.

This selection of papers will be of interest to social scientists who wish to learn more about agent-based modeling as well as experts in the field of agent-based modeling.

• Agent-Based Modelling
• Design Concepts
• Modelling Green Economies
• Modelling Social Systems
• Modelling Sustainable Economies
• PAAMS-SS10-AMSBGE
• Sustainable Consumer Behavior
• computational social sciences

• Facultad de Informática, Universidad de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Oscar Fontenla-Romero

• Information and Computational Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

  J. Gary Polhill

• Socio-Economic and Geographical Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

  Tony Craig

• Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Javier Bajo

• Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

  Juan Manuel Corchado

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