Download or read book Computerized Decision Support Systems for Water Managers written by John W. Labadie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expert Systems Decision Support Systems and Computer assisted Instruction for Water Resource Management written by Bonnie Emmert and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expert Systems Decision Support Systems and Computer Assisted Instruction for Water Resource Management written by Joseph Makuch and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides 255 citations on the topic of water resource management, wastewater, expert systems, artificial intelligence, & related topics. Most citations have annotations. Includes a subject & author index.
Download or read book Computerized Decision support for Sustainable Development and Water resource Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has invested substantial resources into the research and development of computerized decision-support systems (DSS), with the aim of supporting more sustainable development and water resource management at the community level. As documented in Chapter 2, this strategy is firmly ingrained within the agency's research and development program and is part of a broader shift away from media-specific risk-assessment and regulation towards a more de-centralized and collaborative approach, which seeks to encourage development that is socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable through a combination of multi-objective problem solving, innovation, and systems-based science and technology. Chapter 3 summarizes the fifty-year evolution of computerized DSS for community development and water resource management, including the 'bottleneck' between increasing DSS development and the persistent lack of adoption among community practitioners. Existing conceptual models and common methods of researching the (non- )adoption of DSS have provided little practical insight into the why this bottleneck exists, and what if anything can be done to overcome it. Chapter 4 details a comparative evaluation of three DSS developed to assist local land use planners in predicting the impact of land use change on stormwater runoff. The evaluation highlights tradeoffs between system attributes related to three constructs: 'legitimacy', 'organizational fit', and 'programmability', as well as the effect of specific design alternatives and a potentially 'optimal' overall design. Chapters 5 and 6 describe a mixed-methods investigation of the empirical validity, historical development, and community adoption of a DSS developed to aid local public health professionals in predicting water quality at Great Lakes beaches. This investigation included an empirical validation of the 'Virtual Beach' DSS, a 'tracer study' of the its ten-year R & D process, and a series of in-depth case studies of system's (non- )adoption among five coastal communities. In addition to providing grounded theory on the (non- ) adoption of DSS, this study illustrated the methodological advantages and practical benefits of conducting long-term, process-oriented research on DSS (non- )adoption, as well as the steep institutional barriers to this approach.
Download or read book Decision Support Systems written by Daniel P. Loucks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer-Aided Support Systems for Water Resources, Research and Management held at Ericeira (Portugal), 24-28 September, 1990.
Download or read book Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization written by J.B. Marco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic hydrology is an essential base of water resources systems analysis, due to the inherent randomness of the input, and consequently of the results. These results have to be incorporated in a decision-making process regarding the planning and management of water systems. It is through this application that stochastic hydrology finds its true meaning, otherwise it becomes merely an academic exercise. A set of well known specialists from both stochastic hydrology and water resources systems present a synthesis of the actual knowledge currently used in real-world planning and management. The book is intended for both practitioners and researchers who are willing to apply advanced approaches for incorporating hydrological randomness and uncertainty into the simulation and optimization of water resources systems. (abstract) Stochastic hydrology is a basic tool for water resources systems analysis, due to inherent randomness of the hydrologic cycle. This book contains actual techniques in use for water resources planning and management, incorporating randomness into the decision making process. Optimization and simulation, the classical systems-analysis technologies, are revisited under up-to-date statistical hydrology findings backed by real world applications.
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decision Support System for Sustainable Water Supply Planning written by American Water Works Association and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decision Support System DSS for Water Distribution Management written by Jacques Rey and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1994 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of information techniques in all economic activities has been tremendous during the past decade. However, the potential of the multiple management methods and technologies derived from this field has not been fully realized in the irrigation sector. One area of application of information techniques concern the design and installation of Decision Support Systems (DSS). This area, used for the particular activities relating to the management of water in irrigation schemes, constitutes the theoretical background of this paper
Download or read book Water Resources Systems Planning and Management written by Sharad K. Jain and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured and processed is important before undertaking any analysis. The discussion is extended to emerging techniques, such as Remote Sensing, GIS, Artificial Neural Networks, and Expert Systems. The statistical tools for data analysis including commonly used probability distributions, parameter estimation, regression and correlation, frequency analysis, and time-series analysis are discussed in a separate chapter. Part 2 Decision Making, is a bouquet of techniques organized in 4 chapters. After discussing optimization and simulation, the techniques of economic analysis are covered. Recently, environmental and social aspects, and rehabilitation and resettlement of project-affected people have come to occupy a central stage in water resources management and any good book is incomplete unless these topics are adequately covered. The concept of rational decision making along with risk, reliability, and uncertainty aspects form subject matter of a chapter. With these analytical tools, the practitioner is well equipped to take a rational decision for water resources utilization. Part 3 deals with Water Resources Planning and Development. This part discusses the concepts of planning, the planning process, integrated planning, public involvement, and reservoir sizing. The last part focuses on Systems Operation and Management. After a resource is developed, it is essential to manage it in the best possible way. Many dams around the world are losing some storage capacity every year due to sedimentation and therefore, the assessment and management of reservoir sedimentation is described in details. No analysis of water resources systems is complete without consideration of water quality. A river basin is the natural unit in which water occurs. The final chapter discusses various issues related to holistic management of a river basin.
Download or read book Water Management Purificaton and Conservation in Arid Climates Volume I written by Mattheus F. A. Goosen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-07-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new three volume series presents a broad and integrated approach to water management, purification, and conservation in arid climates. Volume one includes an introductory chapter on water problems and water resources in arid climates followed by specific chapters covering various aspects of water management. Volumes two and three deal with wat
Download or read book Water Management Purificaton and Conservation in Arid Climates written by Mattheus F. A. Goosen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-07-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new three volume series presents a broad and integrated approach to water management, purification, and conservation in arid climates. Volume one includes an introductory chapter on water problems and water resources in arid climates followed by specific chapters covering various aspects of water management. Volumes two and three deal with water purification and water conservation, respectively. Many textbooks on water issues normally deal with only one of these areas. This series covers all three areas with an emphasis on the problems faced by arid regions. The three volume series will appeal to industry specialists in desalination and wastewater treatment, irrigation engineers, graduate and undergraduate students in hydrology, water management and conservation professionals, government personnel involved in water resources development, decision makers, environmentalists, employees of the petrochemical industry, and individuals wishing to specialize in water management, purification and conservation.
Download or read book Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters written by M.K. Jha and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide, these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore, it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and losses. Disaster management being highly multidisciplinary in nature, a comprehensive book dealing with different aspects of disaster management, and encompassing important disasters faced by humankind is presently not available. This book is an attempt to fulfill this gap. It provides clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about different facets of disaster management along with salient case studies. The book highlights the current status of disaster management focusing on developing nations, discusses vital issues such as climate change and sustainable development, modern approaches and tools/techniques, and the challenges of and future R&D needs for sustainable disaster management.
Download or read book Computer Models for Water Resources Planning and Management written by Ralph A. Wurbs and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is designed to help water managers & planners who are not expert in modeling, & modeling experts in one area who are interested in surveying available models in another area. Covers: model development & distribution org's.; general-purpose software; demand forecasting & balancing supply with demand; water distribution system models; ground water models; watershed runoff models; stream, hydraulics models; river & reservoir water quality models; & reservoir/river system operation models. Inventory of selected models appendix. Tables.
Download or read book Real World Decision Support Systems written by Jason Papathanasiou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents real-world decision support systems, i.e., systems that have been running for some time and as such have been tested in real environments and complex situations; the cases are from various application domains and highlight the best practices in each stage of the system’s life cycle, from the initial requirements analysis and design phases to the final stages of the project. Each chapter provides decision-makers with recommendations and insights into lessons learned so that failures can be avoided and successes repeated. For this reason unsuccessful cases, which at some point of their life cycle were deemed as failures for one reason or another, are also included. All decision support systems are presented in a constructive, coherent and deductive manner to enhance the learning effect. It complements the many works that focus on theoretical aspects or individual module design and development by offering ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices when developing and using decision support systems. Combining high-quality research with real-world implementations, it is of interest to researchers and professionals in industry alike.
Download or read book Computers and Information Technologies in Agricultural Production and Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computers and Information Technologies in Agricultural Production and Management written by Karl Schneider and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography contains 550 journal, book, and audiovisual citations from the National Agricultural Library's AGRICOLA database. Each entry includes title, publisher, NAL call number, place and date of publication, volume and issue number, pages, description (audiovisual), and descriptors. Many entries include abstracts. Indexed by subject and author.
