Towards an agent-based design for the management of Urban Wastewater Systems

Proc. iEMSs 4th Biennial Meeting - Int. Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1362-1369

  Aulinas, M ^a,b   Poch, M ^a   Cortes U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent design; Integrated management; Multi Agent Systems (MAS); Urban Wastewater System (UWS)

Indexed keywords

AGENT DESIGN; AGENT-BASED DESIGN; AGENT-ORIENTED; AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY; COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EMBEDDED ELEMENT; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT; LEVEL DESIGN; MICRO AND MACRO; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN WASTEWATER SYSTEM; URBANIZED AREA; WASTEWATER SOURCES; WATER AND WASTEWATER;

DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84858319242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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