Volume 23, Number 12, 2515-2538, DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9394-x

Water Resources Management and Planning under Uncertainty: an Inexact Multistage Joint-Probabilistic Programming Method

Y. P. Li, G. H. Huang and S. L. Nie

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Abstract

In this study, an inexact multistage joint-probabilistic programming (IMJP) method is developed for tackling uncertainties presented as interval values and joint probabilities. IMJP improves upon the existing multistage programming and inexact optimization approaches, which can help examine the risk of violating joint-probabilistic constraints. Moreover, it can facilitate analyses of policy scenarios that are associated with economic penalties when the promised targets are violated within a multistage context. The developed method is applied to a case study of water-resources management within a multi-stream, multi-reservoir and multi-period context, where mixed integer linear programming (MILP) technique is introduced into the IMJP framework to facilitate dynamic analysis for decisions of surplus-flow diversion. The results indicate that reasonable solutions for continuous and binary variables have been generated. They can be used to help water resources managers to identify desired system designs against water shortage and for flood control, and to determine which of these designs can most efficiently accomplish optimizing the system objective under uncertainty.

Keywords  Dynamics - Inexact optimization - Multistage - Joint probability - Planning - Scenario analysis - Uncertainty - Water resources

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