Efficient total enumeration of water resources alternatives

摘要

Successful regional water resources planning involves efficiency analysis to find the system that maximizes benefits minus costs or minimizes the cost of providing a specified level of output. The required input to the financial analysis is the optimal solution for the entire project and the optimal solutions for each participant acting independently and with any subset of the total group. For annmember problem this necessitates the calculation of 2n″ ‐ 1 optimal solutions. This paper presents a reliable total enumeration procedure to solve this problem for small‐scale regional water supply systems. This procedure allows the use of realistic cost functions or detailed cost estimates to find the optimal solution, as well as to examine nonoptimal but good solu