Reservoir operation models traditionally require the transformation of all release consequences into one single monetary unit. This approach clearly shows its limitations when a variety of environmental, social, and political consequences cannot (or should not) be converted to monetary terms. As a consequence of its inability to consider all operating objectives, the traditional approach solely involves some stakeholders, making difficult the social acceptance of the release rules. This paper presents a new optimization approach for deriving efficient reservoir operating rules in a multiparticipatory decision-making framework. By considering the optimization problem as a multistage flexible constraint satisfaction problem, we are abl...
Tilmant, A., Persoons, E., & Vanclooster, M. (2001). Deriving efficient reservoir operating rules using flexible stochastic dynamic programming. In C. Brebbia, P. Anagnostopoulos, K. Katsifarakis and A.H.D. Cheng (ed.), Water Resources Management (p. p. 353-361). Wit Press. https://doi.org/10.2495/WRM010341