Robust Decision Making and Info-Gap Decision Theory for water resource system planning

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 494, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-58

  Matrosov, Evgenii S ^a   Woods, Ashley M ^a   Harou, Julien J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Info Gap Decision Theory (IGDT); Infrastructure planning; Robust Decision Making (RDM); Uncertainty; Water resources planning

Indexed keywords

INFO-GAP DECISION THEORIES; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; ROBUST DECISIONS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ENGLAND; THAMES BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84878442872     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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