2016 JWRPM Best Paper Award

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.

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2016 EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTRIBUTIONS

A number of oral/poster presentations are scheduled at 2016 EGU General Assembly

• Li, Giuliani, Castelletti, Reed: Resolving Multi-Stakeholder Robustness Asymmetries in Coupled Agricultural and Urban Systems
  
• Giuliani, Cominola, Alshaf, Castelletti, Anda: Data-driven behavioural modelling of residential water consumption to inform water demand management strategies
• Giuliani, Quinn, Herman, Castelletti, Reed: Scalable multi-objective control for large scale water resources systems under uncertainty
• Li, Giuliani, and Castelletti: Assessing the value of post-processed state-of-the-art long-term weather forecast ensembles for agricultural water management mediated by farmers’ behaviours
• Pham, Giuliani, Castelletti: ENSO detection and use to inform the operation of large scale water systems
• Bellagamba, Denaro, Kern, Giuliani, Castelletti, Characklis: Designing and assessing weather-based financial hedging contracts to mitigate water conflicts at the river basin scale. A case study in the Italian Alps
• Anghileri, Botter, Castelletti, Burlando: Exploring the impact of co-varying water availability and energy price on productivity and profitability of Alpine hydropower
• Anghileri, Giudici, Castelletti, Burlando: Advancing reservoir operation description in physically based hydrological models
• Fedorov, Giuliani, Castelletti, Fraternali: Putting humans in the loop: Using crowdsourced snow information to inform water management
• Recanati, Castelletti, Dotelli, Melià: Exploring water and food security: the water footprint of domestic food production in the Gaza Strip
• Anghileri, Castelletti, Burlando: Alpine hydropower in a low carbon economy: Assessing the local implication of global policies

New paper published on Environmental Research Letters

Our work on the impact of climate change on large storage operations has been just published on Environmental Research Letters. We explored how uncertainty in GCM models propagate through the decision-making chain, evolving over time and impacting tradeoffs in a multiobjective context. Particularly, we studied the Red River system, Vietnam. A large scale hydropower-flood control scheme comprising several large dams also use to support rice production. Read more here.

M. Giuliani, D. Anghileri,  A. Castelletti, P.N. Vu, and R. Soncini-Sessa, Large storage operations under climate change: expanding uncertainties and evolving tradeoffs, Environmental Research Letters, 11(3), 2016