Incentive- and compulsion-based cooperative approach in water resources quality management

Simulating control systems for water resources quality is considered. A hierarchical approach to organization of these systems and hierarchical control methods are taken as the basis. Moving from non-cooperative to cooperative relations is proved to be reasonable. A new way to distribute the payoff in the cooperative game is proposed for the problem of water resources quality control. Typical examples are given to illustrate various optimality principles in the cooperative game.