A GENETIC ALGORITHM-BASED FUZZY MULTI-OBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WATER ALLOCATION

A framework for a multi-objective environmental water allocation strategy for a river basin, with three conflicting objectives involving resources, economics and environmental quality issues. The approach presented involved imprecise and vague information in terms of fuzzy set theory. Genetic algorithms were used as a tool to search the solutions of the modelling. An application in the Liming River Basin has demonstrated that the method is feasible and efficient in solving water management and optimization problems in rivers.