User Oriented Systems Analysis for Regional Municipal Water Supply Planning,

摘要

An interactive data and model generator is developed that is intended to bridge the gap between planning engineers and the mathematical programming systems approach to municipal and regional water supply planning. The optimization objective is to minimize total annual cost of existing and future alternative source-related water supply facilities with respect to capital investment and operation and maintenance costs. A matrix generator is developed which formulates the necessary hydrologic,demographic and stochastic municipal water supply data into the format of a mixed integer linear programming problem for system optimization. The program then calls the integer programming algorithm,solves the optimization problem,and outputs a report in a format and language designed specifically for the problem at hand. All of this is accomplished in interactive mode with the user simply answering questions which are asked by the program.