Managing Water Quality Under Uncertainty Application of a New Stochastic Branch and Bound Method 1996 2 citations ? 0 self

Abstract:  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. iii iv Managing Water Quality Under Uncertainty: Application of a New Stochastic Branch and Bound Method Barbara J. Lence Andrzej Ruszczy'nski 1 Introduction Devising successful and cost-effective water quality management strategies can be difficult because the inputs to, and the behavior of, the system being managed is never entirely predictable. Decision-makers do not know what conditions will exist in the future nor how these conditions will affect the impac...