Multiple Criteria Analysis for Regional Water Quality Management: The Nitra River Case

Makowski, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6107-0972, Somlyody, L., & Watkins, D. (1995). Multiple Criteria Analysis for Regional Water Quality Management: The Nitra River Case. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-022

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Abstract

This Working Paper documents the implementation of an element of a Decision Support System (DSS) for regional water quality management, applied in cooperation with the Water Research Institute (VUVH, Bratislava) and the Vah River Basin Authority to the Nitra River case study in Slovakia. Several re-usable, modular software tools have been developed and implemented -- a problem-specific generator to produce the core part of the mathematical programming model, tools for the generation and interactive modification of multicriteria problems, and a solver for the resulting mixed-integer optimization problem.

Provided in the paper are the following: a complete formulation of the mathematical model (including the applied well-known dissolved oxygen model), a detailed discussion of the data used, documentation of the developed software, an overview of results which might be of interest, and recommendations for future work. Emphasis is placed on the advantages of multicriteria analysis for the regional water quality management problem.

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