James M. Borg
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Incentivising Prosocial Behaviour in Community Energy Using Multi-agent Systems Open
Community energy systems, where communities own their renewable energy sources, are key to the energy transition. But to effectively exploit renewable energy, communities need to reduce their peak consumption. For households, this involves…
Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research Open
The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be.” The study and pursuit of open-ended evolution…
Promoting Social Behaviour in Reducing Peak Electricity Consumption Using Multi-Agent Systems Open
As we transition to renewable energy sources, addressing their inflexibility during peak demand becomes crucial. It is therefore important to reduce the peak load placed on our energy system. For households, this entails spreading high-pow…
Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research Open
The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is "to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be" (1989, p.1). The study and pursuit of open-end…
The Importance of Noise Colour in Simulations of Evolutionary Systems Open
Simulations of evolutionary dynamics often employ white noise as a model of stochastic environmental variation. Whilst white noise has the advantages of being simply generated and analytically tractable, empirical analyses demonstrate that…
A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing Open
Reducing the peak energy consumption of households is essential for the effective use of renewable energy sources, in order to ensure that as much household demand as possible can be met by renewable sources. This entails spreading out the…
Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems Open
Ecological, environmental and geophysical time series consistently exhibit the characteristics of coloured (1/f^\b{eta}) noise. Here we briefly survey the literature on coloured noise, population persistence and related evolutionary dynami…
A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing Open
Reducing the peak energy consumption of households is essential for the effective use of renewable energy sources, in order to ensure that as much household demand as possible can be met by renewable sources. This entails spreading out the…
The Effect of Social Information Use Without Learning on the Evolution of Social Behavior Open
In a recent article by Borg and Channon it was shown that social information alone, decoupled from any within-lifetime learning, can result in improved performance on a food-foraging task compared to when social information is unavailable.…
Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life Open
We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning and Cultural Evolution held at theArtificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancún, Mexico in July 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to assemble artific…