Analytical Support for Integrated Water Resources Management: A New Method for Addressing Spatial and Temporal Variability

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 401-417

  Nikolic, Vladimir V ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a   Milicevic, Dragan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Integrated water resources management; System dynamics simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SYSTEM THEORY;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT POLICY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATION; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 84871715554     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0193-z     Document Type: Article

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