Freshwater Integrated Resources Management with Agents (FIRMA)

Project Executive:

Prof. Dr. phil. Klaus G. Troitzsch

Project Associates:

Dr. rer. nat. Michael Möhring
Dipl.-Inform. Elke Mentges
Stud. inform Christian Oelbermann

Prof. Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey at Guildford, UK
David Sauri, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Nils Ferrand, Cemagref, France
Claudia Pahl-Wostl, EAWAG; Zürich
Tom Downing, University of Oxford
Rosario Conte, IP/CNR, Istituto di Psicologia, Roma
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University
Jan Rotmans, Maastricht University

The aim of the FIRMA project is to improve water resource plan ning through the use of multi-agent models that integrate hydrological, social and economic aspects of water resource management. The models will be applied in five participatory integrated assesments. Specific objectives are:
• To further cooperation between water resource decision makers, experts in water resource management and experts in agent-based social simulation.
• To analyse hydrosocial issues of waster water treatment, water scarcity and integrated catchment planning in selected regions.
• To develop agent-based models for application to issues of water treatment, scarcity and planning, including representing stakeholders' decision making.
• To carry out participatory integrated assessments in five regions.
• To develop a methodology for the modelling of warter resource issues in Europe applicable to policy formulation.

Scientific Institution:

University of Koblenz-Landau, Computer Science Department, Institute of Computer Applications in the Social Sciences

EU: Fifth Framework 3641755 (Koblenz 154769)

April 1999

ongoing
until February 2003

• FIRMA Homepage
• Approaching Agent-Based Simulation
• Lake Anderson Revisited by Agents
• A Generic Agent-Based Model of a River Basin