A Multi-objective Approach for Transboundary River Water Allocation

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5447-5463

  Roozbahani, R ^a   Abbasi, B ^a   Schreider, S ^a   Ardakani, A ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Xopt Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mixed integer Programming; Multi objective Optimisation; Transboundary Watersheds; Water Allocation

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROFITABILITY; RIVERS;

CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FORMULATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE MODELING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS; TRANS-BOUNDARY; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS; WATER ALLOCATIONS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; STAKEHOLDER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

GILAN; IRAN; SEFIDROOD BASIN;

EID: 84918568915     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0812-y     Document Type: Article

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