A Multi-Agent Social Gamification Model to Guide Sustainable Urban Photovoltaic Panels Installation Policies

Robert Olszewski, Piotr Pałka, Agnieszka Wendland and Jacek Kamiński
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Robert Olszewski: Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
Piotr Pałka: Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Wendland: Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
Jacek Kamiński: Energy Economics Division, Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-261 Cracow, Poland

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-27

Abstract: The paper presents a holistic and quantitative model of social gamification in a smart city, which is likely to stimulate the photovoltaic panels installation. The coupling of multi-agent systems, GIS tools, demographic data, and a spatial knowledge base made it possible to develop and calibrate a computable model of social interaction in a “model smart city,” as well as to quantitatively evaluate the deployment of photovoltaic panels. It also enabled the analysis of factors affecting the efficiency of this process, e.g., the photovoltaic potential of solar roofs, the ownership of buildings, the type of building development, the level of social trust, institutional and social incentives, and the development of an information society. The devised model is tested on the city of Warsaw, utilizing spatial and descriptive data provided by city authorities.

Keywords: smart city; multi-agent systems; gamification; photovoltaics; renewable energy systems; spatial databases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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