T.E. de Wildt
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An ex ante assessment of value conflicts and social acceptance of sustainable heating systems
An agent-based modelling approach
This paper demonstrates an approach to assess, ex ante, the social acceptance of sustainable heating systems in city districts. More sustainable heating systems are required in city districts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, these systems may lack social acceptance ...
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies
Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets
Conflicted by decarbonisation
Five types of conflict at the nexus of capabilities and decentralised energy systems identified with an agent-based model
This paper explores capability conflicts in the deployment of decentralised energy systems and identifies the affected population. These systems have positive societal impacts in terms of sustainability and consumer empowerment, but they are not accessible to all and their dep ...
This paper aims to anticipate social acceptance issues related to the deployment of the smart electricity grid by identifying underlying value conflicts. The smart electricity grid is a key enabler of the energy transition. Its successful deployment is however jeopardized by s ...
Ethics by Design
Necessity or Curse?
Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent's behavior remains within given moral boun ...
This paper proposes an approach to capturing and reviewing scientific literature addressing latent topics across multiple scientific fields. As latent topics like moral values are affected by word polysemy and synonymy, a traditional keyword-based approach is often ineffective ...