Modelling domestic water demand: An agent based approach

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 35-54

  Koutiva, Ifigeneia ^a   Makropoulos, Christos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Domestic water demand behaviour; Urban water demand management; Water conservation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DROUGHT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC WATER; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; URBAN WATERS; WATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84956969147     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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