%0 Report
%9 IIASA Working Paper
%A Lence, B.J.
%A Ruszczynski, A.
%C IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
%D 1996
%F iiasa:4961
%T Managing Water Quality under Uncertainty: Application of a New Stochastic Branch and Bound Method
%U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4961/
%X The problem of water quality management under uncertain emission levels, reaction rates and pollutant transport is considered. Various performance measures: reliability, resiliency and vulnerability are taken into account. A general methodology for finding a cost-effective water quality management program is developed. The approach employs a new idea of the stochastic branch and bound method, which combines random estimates of the performance for subsets of decisions with iterative refinement of the most promising subsets.