An agent-based model for lighting technology adoption in the residential sector: integration of social, technological and economic factors

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Chamorro Erazo, Jairo Daniel Chamorro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Agent-based modeling; Complex networks; Difusão de inovação; Energia; Energy; Innovation's difussion; Lighting technologies; Modelagem baseado em agentes; Previsão tecnológica; Redes complexas; Technology forecasting; Tecnologias de iluminação
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100132/tde-02032017-225727/

The implementation of energy policies oriented to incentive the adoption of efficient lighting technologies in the residential sector requires analytic tools able to describe the market conditions necessary for a successful penetration of the innovations. This article describes, using an agent-based model, the relationship between the micro behaviors of householder\'s adoption of lighting technologies and the aggregated macro patterns of diffusion in the Brazilian residential sector. The model also studies the dynamic between the interaction network parameters and the emerging diffusion characteristics in different economic scenarios for energy and technologic prices