dc.contributor.author | Savic, Dragan | |
dc.contributor.author | Bicik, Josef | |
dc.contributor.author | Morley, Mark S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-24T14:29:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-12-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | Water management practice has benefited from the development of model-driven Decision Support Systems (DSS), and in particular those that combine simulation with single or multiple-objective optimisation tools. However, there are many performance, acceptance and adoption problems with these decision support tools caused mainly by misunderstandings between the communities of system developers and users. This paper presents a general-purpose decision-support system generator, GANetXL, for developing specific applications that require multiobjective optimisation of spreadsheet-based models. The system is developed as an Excel add-in that provides easy access to evolutionary multiobjective optimisation algorithms to non-specialists by incorporating an intuitive interactive graphical user interface that allows easy creation of specific decision-support applications. GANetXL’s utility is demonstrated on two examples from water engineering practice, a simple water supply reservoir operation model with two objectives and a large combinatorial optimisation problem of pump scheduling in water distribution systems. The two examples show how GANetXL goes a long way toward closing the gap between the achievements in optimisation technology and the successful use of DSS in practice. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 26 (5), pp. 551 - 561 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.11.004 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | GR/T26054/01 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15259 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.subject | Decision support systems | en_GB |
dc.subject | Multiobjective | en_GB |
dc.subject | Optimization | en_GB |
dc.subject | Evolutionary algorithms | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pareto solutions | en_GB |
dc.subject | Spreadsheet models | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water management | en_GB |
dc.title | A DSS generator for multiobjective optimisation of spreadsheet-based models | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-24T14:29:49Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1364-8152 | |
dc.description | Copyright © 2011 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Environmental Modelling & Software. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Environmental Modelling & Software Vol. 26 (2011), DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.11.004 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-6726 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental Modelling and Software | en_GB |