Decision Support Systems for Water Resources Management

"Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities. A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision-makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions. 

During the last years, several Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed for water resources management, in which sophisticated computerized systems integrate watershed processes at different spatial and temporal scales, simulation models and decision-making approaches. These tools have been developed for a variety of purposes such as prevention of water shortages (droughts), extreme event (flooding) and water-related pollution accidents." (Teodosiu et al., 2009)
 

Sources

Teodosiu, C., Ardeleanu, C., and Lupu, L. "An overview of decision support systems for integrated water resources management". Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 8, (2009): 153-162. 10.30638/eemj.2009.023. 

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