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Computer-Aided Water Reservoir Management: A Prototype Two-Level DSS

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Decision Support Systems

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This paper focuses on a way of managing a single-reservoir, multipurpose water resource system. Indeed, from a conceptual point of view, the totality of the ideas expressed here can be extended to a multi- reservoir system. The rationale of the restriction is to simplify the theoretical aspects and to match them with the prototype Decision Support System (DSS) for the management of a single reservoir system presented in the paper. Lake Como serves as an example case study.

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  1. Dept. of Electronics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    R. Soncini-Sessa

  2. Inst. of Agricultural Hydraulics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    C. Gandolfi

  3. Dept. of Industrial Automation, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    A. Nardini

  4. Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Politechnika Warzaska, Warsaw, Poland

    A. Kraszewski

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  1. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Hollister Hall, 13853-3501, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Daniel P. Loucks

  2. Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2825, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

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Soncini-Sessa, R., Gandolfi, C., Nardini, A., Kraszewski, A. (1991). Computer-Aided Water Reservoir Management: A Prototype Two-Level DSS. In: Loucks, D.P., da Costa, J.R. (eds) Decision Support Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76048-8_24

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