An Electronic Institution for Simulating Water-Right Markets

Workshop on Agreement Technologies 2010.

计算机科学;

Vicente Botti1 ; Antonio Garrido1 ; Juan A. Gimeno1 ; Adriana Giret1 ; Francesc Igual1 ; Pablo Noriega2

Others  :  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-657/paper01.pdf
PID  :  41417

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In countries like Spain, and particularly in its Mediterranean coast, there is a high degree of public awareness of the main consequences of the scarcity of water and the need of fostering effcient use of water resources. Two new mechanisms for water management already under way are: a heated debate on the need and feasibility of transferring water from one basin to another, and, directly related to this proposal, the regulation of water banks1. This paper is about mWater, an agent-based electronic market of water rights. Our focus is on demand and, in particular, on the type of regulatory and market mechanisms that foster an effcient use of water while preventing con icts. In this work we present the regulated environment which is implemented as an Electronic Institution for simulating water-right markets in order to evaluate the impacts of dierent regulations on the market behaviour.