On Thursday, July 7th 2016, Prof. Jon Herman from UC Davis (CA) will give a talk about Robust policy design for water resources systems with conflicting objectives at Politecnico di Milano – DEIB conference room, 11.00 am.
On Wednesday, June 8th 2016, Dr. Tingju Zhu from International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, DC) will give a talk about Policy modeling for sustainable water management in agriculture: Challenges of spatial scales at Politecnico di Milano – DEIB conference room, 11.00 am.
The paper “Multiagent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning for Regulatory Mechanism Design in Water Management” authored by Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti, Francesco Amigoni, and Ximing Cai has been selected as the 2016 Best Research Paper Award on the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management by the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).
The paper proposes a new decision analytic framework which helps the community develop more realistic models of water management systems with multiple decision makers who follow their own interests. The proposed method helps understanding the difference and trade-off between acceptability (stability) and optimality of a solution, which is essential to developing regulatory mechanisms for implementing optimal solutions in multi-agent systems. The prize was awarded at the 2016 ASCE-EWRI Conference in West Miami Beach, FL.
Matteo Giuliani has been selected as winner of B
ando Fondo Rotary Premio alla Ricerca 2015 of Fondazione Provinciale della Comunità Comasca for the research “Co-adapting water supply and demand to changing climate in agricultural water management: evidences from a model based analysis in Northern Italy” developed with Yu Li, Andrea Castelletti e Claudio Gandolfi (Università Statale di Milano). More information HERE.