%0 Journal Article
%@ 1752-1688
%A Makowski, M.
%A Somlyody, L.
%A Watkins, D.
%D 1996
%F iiasa:4637
%I Wiley-Blackwell
%J Journal of the American Water Resources Association
%N 5
%P 937-951
%R 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1996.tb04064.x
%T Multiple criteria analysis for water quality management in the Nitra Basin
%U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4637/
%V 32
%X This paper presents the implementation of one element of a decision support system (DSS) for regional water quality management, applied to the Nitra River Basin in Slovakia. A model-based, aspiration-led methodology for multicriteria decision support has been used for the study. Several reusable, 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 imbedded water quality model), a summary of the aspiration-reservation-led multiple criteria optimization approach applied to decision support, and an overview of results that illustrate the applied approach and provide some interesting insights to the case study.