Calibrating a watershed simulation model involving human interference: An application of multi-objective genetic algorithms

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-111

  Hejazi, Mohamad I ^a   Cai, Ximing ^a   Borah, Deva K ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Borah Hydro Environmental Modeling   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic callibration; Genetic algorithms; Human interference; Multi objective optimization; Rainfall runoff modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449098200     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2008.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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