Abstract
Wastewater management is a complex task involving a wide range of technical environmental and social factors. Furthermore, it typically requires the coordination of a heterogeneous society of actors with different goals. Regulations and protocols can be effectively used to tackle this complexity. In this chapter we present a norm-aware multi-agent system for social simulations in a river basin. The norms we present are inspired in European policies for wastewater management and they can evolve through time.
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Pollutant concentration is given in (\(\frac{\text{kg}}{{{\text{m}}^{ 3} }}\)).
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Gómez-Sebastià, I. et al. (2017). A Norm-Aware Multi-agent System for Social Simulations in a River Basin. In: Kahraman, C., Sari, İ. (eds) Intelligence Systems in Environmental Management: Theory and Applications. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42993-9_4
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