Abstract
Efficient water resource management is a topic of major importance in the field of sustainable development. In arid and semi-arid regions characterized by limited and irregular water availability, the agricultural sector is under constant pressure to receive and ensure water for their crops. Finding an optimal way to share this limited resource requires numerous negotiations between water suppliers and farmers. A multi-agent system, as presented in this paper, is a computer simulation that models the interactions between different types of agents in order to gain insight into the group’s behavior as a whole. This paper claims that such a system can be used at the beginning of the agricultural season to predict potential outcomes of the interactions between water suppliers and farmers, which can inform management on how to optimally plan for the allocation of water. One objective was to take an interdisciplinary approach in order to simulate imagined consequences to complex decisions and to suggest new ways of maximizing water resources while improving income when reaching final compromises. To accomplish this objective, the present computer simulation performed a multi-agent approach using the open source Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) platform.
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