Making the most of modelling: A decision framework for the water industry

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3775-3781

  Blackmore, J M ^a,b   Dandy, G C ^a,c   Kuczera, G ^a,d   Rahman, J ^a,b  

^a EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision framework; EWater CRC; Optimization; Risk; Uncertainty; Water management models

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TABLES; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORKS; INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION MODELS; TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE; WATER MANAGEMENT MODEL;

DECISION MAKING;

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