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A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, N. A., Powers, S. T., & Borg, J. M. (2020). A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2020 (ALIFE 2020) (95-103). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00290

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 use of hig... Read More about A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing.

From disorganized equality to efficient hierarchy: how group size drives the evolution of hierarchy in human societies (2020)
Journal Article
Perret, C., Hart, E., & Powers, S. T. (2020). From disorganized equality to efficient hierarchy: how group size drives the evolution of hierarchy in human societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), Article 20200693. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0693

A manifest trend is that larger and more productive human groups shift from distributed to centralized decision-making. Voluntary theories propose that human groups shift to hierarchy to limit scalar stress, i.e. the increase in cost of organization... Read More about From disorganized equality to efficient hierarchy: how group size drives the evolution of hierarchy in human societies.