Multicriteria Decision Support System for Regionalization of Integrated Water Resources Management

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1325-1346

  Coelho, Ana Carolina ^a   Labadie, John W ^b   Fontane, Darrell G ^b  

^a Ministerio do Meio Ambiente Brazil   (Brazil)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering methods; Decision support systems; Dynamic programming; Fuzzy sets; Geographic information systems; Integrated water resources management; Multicriteria methods

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; DECISION SUPPORTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS); INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA METHOD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; WATER RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; HOMOGENEITY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL DATA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

ARAGUAIA BASIN; BRAZIL; TOCANTINS RIVER;

EID: 84858623346     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9961-4     Document Type: Article

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