A multistage stochastic robust optimization model with fuzzy probability distribution for water supply management under uncertainty

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Y. L. Xie ; D. H. Xia ; G. H. Huang ; W. Li…
• 关键词：Inexact multistage stochastic programming ; Robust optimization ; Water resources allocation ; Fuzzy probability ; Uncertainty
• 刊名：Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：31
• 期：1
• 页码：125-143
• 全文大小：
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Earth Sciences, general; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Computa
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1436-3259
• 卷排序：31

文摘

In this study, a fuzzy probability distribution- based multi-stage stochastic robust programming method has been developed for supporting regional water supply management. In the proposed model, methods of interval-parameter programming and robust stochastic optimization, and fuzzy probability distribution are introduced into a multi-stage stochastic programming framework, and the developed model can tackle uncertainties described in terms of interval values and fuzzy probability distributions. The developed model was applied to a water resources management system with three water users. A number of scenarios corresponding to different river inflow and α-cut levels are examined; the results suggest that reasonable solutions have been generated for regional water resources management. The results indicated that the optimization model’s outputs were highly dependent on the complex uncertain features of the study system, and the α-cut level of fuzzy probability had few significant impacts on the system objective. The results also implied that the developed method can be used for analyzing a variety of policy scenarios that are associated with different levels of economic consequences when the promised water-allocation targets are violated. Dynamics and uncertainties of water availability (and thus water allocation and shortage) could be taken into account through generation of a set of representative scenarios within a multistage context. The proposed method could be used by environmental managers to evaluate trade-offs of system benefits and risk involving fuzzy probability condition, as well as identify management solutions that sufficiently hedge against dual uncertainties.