Modelling and control for partecipatory planning and managing water systems
Publisher: Libreria Clup
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Milano, Italy
ISBN-13: 9788870907322
Table of contents: title: Proceedings of the IFAC workshop on Modelling and Control for Participatory Planning and Managing Water Systems; title: Venice, Italy September 29th-October 1st 2004; title: SCOPE AND TOPICS; title: Water demand is globally increasing, while the availability and quality of water resources are decreasing, mainly because of population growth, ongoing urbanization, industrialization and the intensification of agriculture. These phenomena often cause a reduction of environmental quality and endanger sustainable development. There is a wide consensus that the integrated planning and management of water resources (IWRM) plays a crucial role in this context. This means that the decisional process must be participatory, in order to reach decisions shared by the widest group of interested parties. However, mathematical and software tools supporting this approach are still in the early phase of development, and more research and investigation is yet to be devoted to the dynamical and participatory nature of decisions in water systems.; title: The workshop will focus on the role played by modelling and control techniques as well as software engineering in designing Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for planning and managing water resource systems with an integrated and participatory approach.; title: The workshop will be divided into three sections with different themes:; title: 1st theme: Modelling; title: Procedure: criteria and indicators, participatory modelling.; title: Methodologies: parsimonious modelling, neural networks, bayesian belief networks (BBN), data mining, mechanistic modelling, error bounding approach.; title: IT: modelling frameworks.; title: Case Studies; title: 2nd theme: Managing and MODSS; title: Procedure: participatory design of policies, managing under uncertainty.; title: Methodologies: (neuro-)stochastic dynamic programming, fuzzy control, robust control, genetic programming.; title: IT: MODSS Architecture.; title: Case Studies; title: 3rd theme: Planning and MODSS; title: Procedure: decision-making procedures, participatory procedures, environmental impact assessment.; title: Methodologies for multi criteria analysis, negotiation, conflict analysis, uncertainty evaluation, scenario choice; title: IT: MODSS Architecture.; title: Case Studies