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Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings (2023)
Journal Article
Mashuk, M. S., Pinchin, J., Siebers, P., & Moore, T. (2024). Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 84, Article 108420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108420

Having a good grasp on modelling the dynamics of occupants for estimating electricity consumption in office buildings is a vital asset for realistic predictions. Nowadays, agent-based models are widely used for this purpose. Previous approaches to mo... Read More about Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings.

Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations (2022)
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Hey, J., Siebers, P. O., Nathanail, P., Ozcan, E., & Robinson, D. (2022). Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2022.2106309

Modelling energy retrofit adoption in domestic urban building stocks is vital for policymakers aiming to reduce emissions. The use of surrogate models to evaluate building performance combined with optimization procedures can optimize small building... Read More about Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations.

Modelling the emergence of cities and urban patterning using coupled integro-differential equations (2022)
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Whiteley, T. D., Avitabile, D., Siebers, P. O., Robinson, D., & Owen, M. R. (2022). Modelling the emergence of cities and urban patterning using coupled integro-differential equations. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 19(190), Article 20220176. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0176

Human residential population distributions show patterns of higher density clustering around local services such as shops and places of employment, displaying characteristic length scales; Fourier transforms and spatial autocorrelation show the lengt... Read More about Modelling the emergence of cities and urban patterning using coupled integro-differential equations.

RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling (2022)
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Achter, S., Borit, M., Chattoe-Brown, E., & Siebers, P. (2022). RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(4), 517-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2022.2049511

This article describes and justifies a reporting standard to improve data use documentation in Agent-Based Modelling. Following the development of reporting standards for models themselves, empirical modelling has now developed to the point where the... Read More about RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling.

Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface (2021)
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Ranjbari, M., Shams Esfandabadi, Z., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P.-O., & Quatraro, F. (2021). Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23, 16646-16673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01372-6

As a response to the urgent call for recovery actions against the COVID-19 crisis, this research aims to identify action priority areas post COVID-19 toward achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda for... Read More about Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface.

Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development (2021)
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Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Zanetti, M. C., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P.-O., Aghbashlo, M., …Tabatabaei, M. (2021). Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 297, Article 126660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126660

The COVID-19 pandemic has immensely impacted the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability in human lives. Due to the scholars’ increasing interest in responding to the urgent call for action against the pandemic, the literature o... Read More about Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development.

Demonstrating the potential of indoor positioning for monitoring building occupancy through ecologically valid trials (2021)
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Mashuk, M. S., Pinchin, J., Siebers, P. O., & Moore, T. (2021). Demonstrating the potential of indoor positioning for monitoring building occupancy through ecologically valid trials. Journal of Location Based Services, 15(4), 305-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2021.1893394

Assessing building performance related to energy consumption in post-design-occupancy stage requires knowledge of building occupancy pattern. These occupancy data can potentially be collected from trials and used to improve the prediction capability... Read More about Demonstrating the potential of indoor positioning for monitoring building occupancy through ecologically valid trials.

On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment (2020)
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Siebers, P.-O., Herath, D. B., Bardone, E., Farahbakhsh, S., Knudsen, P. G., Madsen, J. K., …Secchi, D. (2021). On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment. Evidence-based HRM, 9(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/ebhrm-09-2019-0079

Purpose - This viewpoint article is concerned with an attempt to advance Organisational Plasticity (OP) modelling concepts by using a novel community modelling framework (PhiloLab) from the Social Simulation community to drive the process of idea gen... Read More about On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment.

Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing (2020)
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Thaler, J., & Siebers, P.-O. (2020). Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 34(2), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09473-8

The importance of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) as scientific method to generate data for scientific models in general and for informed policy decisions in particular has been widely recognised. However, the important technique of code testing of impl... Read More about Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing.

‘One Size Does Not Fit All’: A Roadmap of Purpose-Driven Mixed-Method Pathways for Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models (2020)
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Ligmann-Zielinska, A., Siebers, P.-O., Magliocca, N., Parker, D. C., Grimm, V., Du, J., …Ye, X. (2020). ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’: A Roadmap of Purpose-Driven Mixed-Method Pathways for Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4201

Designing, implementing, and applying agent-based models (ABMs) requires a structured approach, part of which is a comprehensive analysis of the output to input variability in the form of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis (SA). The objective of th... Read More about ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’: A Roadmap of Purpose-Driven Mixed-Method Pathways for Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models.

An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change (2020)
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Siebers, P. O., Lim, Z. E., Figueredo, G. P., & Hey, J. (2020). An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4209

© 2020, University of Surrey. All rights reserved. Modelling and simulation play an increasingly significant role in exploratory studies for informing policy makers on climate change mitigation strategies. There is considerable research being done in... Read More about An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change.

Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel (2019)
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Olusola, F. T., Siebers, P.-O., Faboya, O., Ryan, B., & Figueredo, G. P. (2020). Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 139, Article 106077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106077

© 2019 Travel mode choices are a result of several factors and how they affect individual travellers. This paper examines those factors influencing travellers’ mode choices commuting to and from a university. Furthermore, we investigate how a shift t... Read More about Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel.

On the multi-agent stochastic simulation of occupants in buildings (2018)
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Chapman, J., Siebers, P., & Robinson, D. (2018). On the multi-agent stochastic simulation of occupants in buildings. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 11(5), 604-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2017.1417483

This paper introduces a new general platform for the simulation of occupants’ presence and behaviours. Called No-MASS (Nottingham Multi-Agent Stochastic Simulation), this generates a synthetic population of agents, predicts their presence and, in t... Read More about On the multi-agent stochastic simulation of occupants in buildings.

Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK (2016)
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Zhang, T., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. (2016). Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.02.009

How do technology users effectively transit from having zero knowledge about a technology to making the best use of it after an authoritative technology adoption? This post-adoption user learning has received little research attention in technology m... Read More about Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK.

Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations: An Introduction (2015)
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Siebers, P.-O., & Davidsson, P. (2015). Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations: An Introduction. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 18(3), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.2835

This special section on "Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations" aims to represent the current state of the art in using Software Engineering (SE) methods in ABSS. It includes a mixture of theoretically oriented papers that describe frameworks, n... Read More about Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations: An Introduction.

Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence (2015)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Whitbrook, A., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2015). Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence. PLoS ONE, 10(3), Article e0118359. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118359

Advances in healthcare and in the quality of life significantly increase human life expectancy. With the aging of populations, new un-faced challenges are brought to science. The human body is naturally selected to be well-functioning until the age o... Read More about Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence.

Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer (2014)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., Owen, M. R., Reps, J., & Aickelin, U. (2014). Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e95150. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095150

There is great potential to be explored regarding the use of agent-based modelling and simulation as an alternative paradigm to investigate early-stage cancer interactions with the immune system. It does not suffer from some limitations of ordinary d... Read More about Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer.

Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective (2013)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. (2013). Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective. BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Spl. 6), Article S6. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S6-S6

Many advances in research regarding immuno-interactions with cancer were developed with the help of ordinary differential equation (ODE) models. These models, however, are not effectively capable of representing problems involving individual localisa... Read More about Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective.

Modelling electrical car diffusion based on agents (2012)
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Yu, L., Zhang, T., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Modelling electrical car diffusion based on agents. https://doi.org/10.4156/jdcta.vol6.issue19.52

Replacing traditional fossil fuel vehicles with innovative zero-emission vehicles for the transport in cities is one of the major tactics to achieve the UK government 2020 target of cutting emission. We are developing an agent-based simulation mode... Read More about Modelling electrical car diffusion based on agents.