Role of culture in water resources management via sustainable social automated negotiation

Faria Nassiri-Mofakham and Michael N. Huhns

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023, vol. 86, issue C

Abstract: Increased competitions for water resources in many regions worldwide call for cooperative approaches. The competitions are complex for humans to resolve due to numerous alternatives and different or conflicting preferences of multiple stakeholders over multiple criteria, which might even oppose desirable environmental objectives. Parties also have incomplete information about the preferences of the counterparties. Electronic negotiation, empowered by intelligent agent technology, is a combination of artificial intelligence, economics, and psychology to find beneficial joint agreements in complex paradigms such as this. This study investigates a multilateral sustainable automated negotiation among intelligent agents representing stakeholders, including the legal party ‘nature’ as one of the stakeholders. It defines decision criteria and alternatives in the framework of cultural factors, elicits preferences of the stakeholders regarding the criteria without their intervention using a multi-criteria decision-making method, prunes the solution space before starting the negotiation by recognizing a general social treaty, determines the multi-issue specific treaty by learning the stakeholders, and demonstrates bidding and acceptance strategies.

Keywords: Multi-agent systems; Water resources management; Conflict resolution; Cultural factors; Multi-criteria decision-making; Computational social choice; Sustainable negotiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101465

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