A Hybrid Agent-Based Model for Estimating Residential Water Demand

Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.; Mentes, Alexandros; Mitkas, Pericles A.; Mylopoulos, Y.

doi:10.1177/0037549705053172

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“…This literature has shown the importance of personal beliefs [Fielding et al, 2012], which in turn can be influenced informally through social networks [Athanasiadis, 2005;Kanta and Zechman, 2014], as well as the role of economic incentives such as water pricing [Olmstead and Stavins, 2009]. In contrast to this approach, we are more interested in the general factors that affect the change in the overall water supply regime to favor inclusion of water conservation policies.…”

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Water conservation and hydrological transitions in cities in the United States

Hornberger

Hess

Gilligan

2015

Water Resources Research

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Cities across the world have had to diversify and expand their water supply systems in response to demand growth, groundwater depletion and pollution, and instability and inadequacy of regional surface freshwater sources. In the U.S., these problems plague not only the arid Western cities but increasingly also cities in the Eastern portions of the country. Although cities continue to seek out new sources of water via Promethean projects of long-distance supply systems, desalinization plants, and the recharge of aquifers with surface water, they also pursue water conservation because of its low cost and other benefits. We examine water conservation as a complex sociotechnical system comprising interactions of political, sociodemographic, economic, and hydroclimatological factors. We provide quantitative data on the factors that affect more and less advanced transitions in water conservation regimes, and we show that water stress and other hydrological data can only partially predict the transition. We also provide qualitative case studies to identify institutional and political barriers to more advanced water conservation regimes. This interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach typifies the need for knowledge that informs hydrologists about how their research may or may not be adopted by decision-makers.

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Water conservation and hydrological transitions in cities in the United States

Hornberger

Hess

Gilligan

2015

Water Resources Research

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“…This model takes into account demographic, social, ecological factors according to data about usage of alternative energy sources. Paper [9] discusses the hybrid agent-oriented model that makes it possible to evaluate the population demands for water, paper [10] focuses on sustainable groundwater management.…”

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Evaluation of development prospects of renewable energy: agent based modelling

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Забелина

Murtazina

2017

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Abstract. The paper describes the agent-based model usage to evaluate the dynamics and the perspectives of alternative energy adopting in the Eastern regions of Russia. It includes a brief review of the agent-based models that can be used for estimation of alternatives in the process of transition to "green" economics. The authors show that active usage of solar energy in Russia is possible at the rural household level, when the climate conditions are appropriate. Adoption of solar energy sources decreases the energy production based on the conventional sources and improves the quality of environment in the regions. A complex regional multiagent model is considered in this paper. The model consists of several private models and uses GIS technologies. These private models are a demographic and migration model of the region and a diffusion of the innovations model. In these models, agents are humans who live within the boundaries of the agents-municipalities, and agents as well are large-scale producers of electricity that pollutes the environment. Such a structure allows us to determine the changes in the demand for electricity generated by traditional sources. A simulation software will assist to identify the opportunities for implementation of alternative energy sources in the Eastern regions of Russia.

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“…This type of dynamic and adaptive system can be simulated using an ABM approach where agents represent individual reactive and autonomous decision-making units, including human actors, and are capable of adapting to inputs from other agents and a shared environment through a set of logical and mathematical rules that specify behavioral decisions [24][25][26]. Several studies of urban water management used ABM approaches and focused primarily on demand-side management through pricing [27,28] and non-pricing [2,[29][30][31] conservation measures; none of these studies, however, incorporated supply-side decisions. Giacomoni et al [9] developed an ABM framework to simulate the dynamics of land use change, population growth, and adaptations of water demands and the effects on water sustainability.…”

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Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

Kanta

Berglund

2015

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Abstract:Urban water supply systems may be managed through supply-side and demand-side strategies, which focus on water source expansion and demand reductions, respectively. Supply-side strategies bear infrastructure and energy costs, while demand-side strategies bear costs of implementation and inconvenience to consumers. To evaluate the performance of demand-side strategies, the participation and water use adaptations of consumers should be simulated. In this study, a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) framework is developed to simulate consumer agents that change their consumption to affect the withdrawal from the water supply system, which, in turn influences operational policies and long-term resource planning. Agent-based models are encoded to represent consumers and a policy maker agent and are coupled with water resources system simulation models. The CAS framework is coupled with an evolutionary computation-based multi-objective methodology to explore tradeoffs in cost, inconvenience to consumers, and environmental impacts for both supply-side and demand-side strategies. Decisions are identified to specify storage levels in a reservoir that trigger: (1) increases in the volume of water pumped through inter-basin transfers from an external reservoir; and (2) drought stages, which restrict the volume of water that is allowed for residential outdoor uses. The proposed methodology is demonstrated for Arlington, Texas, water supply system to identify non-dominated strategies for an historic drought decade. Results demonstrate that pumping costs associated with maximizing

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A Hybrid Agent-Based Model for Estimating Residential Water Demand

Cited by 111 publications

References 27 publications

Water conservation and hydrological transitions in cities in the United States

Water conservation and hydrological transitions in cities in the United States

Evaluation of development prospects of renewable energy: agent based modelling

Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

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