A multi-objective optimisation approach to water management.

A reliability-based maintenance technicians’ workloads optimisation model with stochastic consideration

The growing interest in technicians’ workloads research is probably associated with the recent surge in competition. This was prompted by unprecedented technological development that triggers changes in customer tastes and preferences for industrial goods. In a quest for business improvement, this worldwide intense competition in industries has stimulated theories and practical frameworks that ...

A new approach for solving fuzzy multi-objective quadratic programming of water resource allocation problem

Evolutionary Bayesian Belief Networks for Participatory Water Resources Management under Uncertainty

A participatory integrated (social, economic, environmental) approach based on causal loop diagram, Bayesian belief networks and evolutionary multiobjective optimisation is proposed for efficient water resources management. The proposed methodology incorporates all the conflicting objectives in the decision making process. Causal loop diagram allows a range of different factors to be considered...

Introduction of MO-GP algorithm and its application in basin management

The most important factor that should be considered in managing a watershed is, taking into account objectives under policies. In operating from water resources systems, in general, and in reservoir, in particular, operating rules should be extracted as multi-objective. In this paper, multi-objective genetic programming (MOGP) is developed and used. Then, after verification, it is used to extra...

Agent swarm optimisation,

Agent swarm optimisation (ASO) is a new paradigm based on particle swarm optimisation that exploits distributed or swarm intelligence and borrows some ideas from multi-agent based systems. It is aimed at supporting decision-making processes by solving either single or multi-objective optimisation problems. Classical methods of optimisation have been shown to be poorly suited for many real-world...

Optimisation of Healthcare Contracts: Tensions Between Standardisation and Innovation; Comment on “Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?”

An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. Yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. Arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...