Multi-objective modelling and decision support using a Bayesian network approximation to a non-point source pollution model

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-222

  Dorner, Sarah ^a   Shi, Jie ^b   Swayne, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Multicriteria decision support; Non point source pollution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HYDROLOGY; POLLUTION CONTROL; WASTE TREATMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

EID: 33749240117     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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