Inspiration from animal’s collective behavior for home energy demand management
L Badarnah,
M Barakat,
S Oliveira
Abstract:An interdisciplinary approach towards managing energy demand through users’ behavior is discussed, drawing on knowledge from studies on collective behavior in nature. Studies on home energy demand management have focused mainly on social, technical and, more recently, socio-technical aspects that are considered largely at the individual levels only. However, emerging trends in social studies call for explorations across different social and spatial scales beyond the individual levels. This work distinguishes s… Show more
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