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An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

We are entering the era of robots, for everyone, everywhere. The expectations of the robots being reliable, intelligent and friendly artificial creatures drive the key challenges of the state-of-the-art robotics: technological, practical and social. The la ...

EPFL2020

Increasing organic food consumption: An integrating model of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Ralph Hansmann

A survey of 620 Swiss households was conducted to investigate the determinants of purchases of organic fruits and vegetables and identify subjectively perceived requirements for more environmentally friendly and healthier food consumption. An integrative b ...

2020

Towards Norm Realization in Institutions Mediating Human-Robot Societies

Alcherio Martinoli, Stevan Tomic

Social norms are the understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society. As such, they regulate communication, cooperation and other social interactions. Robots capable of reasoning about social norms are more likely to be recognized as an ext ...

2018

Towards Norm Realization in Institutions Mediating Human-Robot Societies

Alcherio Martinoli, Stevan Tomic

IEEE2018

Exploring transition pathways of habitual transport behaviour

Franziska Meinherz

Private households account for more than half of the demand addressed to the transport sector. We propose an analytical framework to describe transitions in transport behaviour across cases and to identify their respective drivers. With this, we aim to bet ...

2018

Toward a polycentric low-carbon transition: the roles of community-based energy initiatives in enhancing the resilience of energy systems

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

An understanding of the resilience of energy systems is critical in order to tackle forthcoming challenges. This chapter proposes that the polycentric governance perspective, developed by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, may be highly relevant in formulating pol ...

Springer2017

Structuring socio-technical complexity in infrastructure systems: an agent-based model

Reinier Verhoog, Amineh Ghorbani

In this paper we demonstrate how agent-based modelling can be used to understand the emergence of a new infrastructure system, more specifically, a biogas infrastructure in the Netherlands. The innovative element in our modelling approach is the use of MAI ...

2016

Explaining the diversity of motivations behind community renewable energy

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

Community-based renewable energy initiatives may be important actors in the transition toward low-carbon energy systems. In turn, stimulating investments in renewable energy production at the community level requires a better understanding of investors' mo ...

Elsevier2016

Medium-sized Haitian cities after the earthquake of 12 January 2010: an analysis of the urban governance from the perspective given by the Governance Analytical Framework GAF

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

The concept of governance is generally understood to be the creation of a structure or an order that results from the interaction of a multiplicity of governing mechanisms and actors influencing each other. The notion is increasingly criticized mainly beca ...

2015

Why Don't Pesticide Applicators Protect Themselves?

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

The misuse of personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide application was investigated among smallholders in Colombia. The integrative agent-centered (IAC) framework and a logistic regression approach were adopted. The results suggest that the des ...

2010

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