Safe dike heights at minimal costs: The nonhomogeneous case

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1342-1355

  Brekelmans, Ruud ^a   Den Hertog, Dick ^a   Roos, Kees ^b   Eijgenraam, Carel ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Flood prevention; MINLP; Robust optimization

Indexed keywords

FLOOD PREVENTION; HEIGHT OPTIMIZATION; INVESTMENT COSTS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LARGE PARTS; MINIMAL COST; MINLP; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MODEL PARAMETERS; NETHERLANDS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SAFETY STANDARD; WATER ACT;

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; LEVEES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; WATER LEVELS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84871881376     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1110.1028     Document Type: Article

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