Water Resources Systems Operations via Multiagent Negotiation

The operations of water resources infrastructures, like dams and diversions, often involve multiple conflicting interests and stakeholders. Agent-based approaches have recently attracted an increasing attention to design optimal operating policies for these systems. In this paper we contribute a general monotonic concession negotiation protocol that allows the stakeholders-agents of a regulated lake to reach agreements on the amount of water to release daily, balancing control of lake floods and water supply to agricultural districts downstream.