Title :
A negotiation based approach to Waste Load Allocation problems
Author :
Sharifi, Farid ; Fang, Liping ; Afshar, Abbas
Author_Institution :
Civil Eng. Dept., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
A meta-heuristic based negotiation algorithm is proposed to resolve conflict over the Waste Load Allocation (WLA) problem in rivers. In the proposed approach, the waste dischargers are allowed to negotiate with each other using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and decide how much they plan to discharge while strictly meeting the environmental standards at the checkpoints. The proposed algorithm is applied to solve two mathematical benchmark problems. Moreover, the approach developed is used to study an illustrative WLA problem.
Keywords :
optimisation; resource allocation; rivers; wastewater; WLA; ant colony optimization; mathematical benchmark problems; negotiation based approach; rivers; waste load allocation; Multiobjective Optimization; Nash Equilibrium; Negotiation; Waste Load Allocation;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6586-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641691
