Abstract: Irrigation development in Indonesia is directed at both traditional economic efficiency objectives and socioeconomic objectives related to self‐sufficiency in rice production, improved income to individual farmers, and the ...

Abstract: Review of the use of system‐analysis techniques, and in particular optimization, to design water‐distribution networks reveals that in spite of the considerable development of models in the literature they have not been ...

Abstract: A new algorithm for designing the layout of rectilinear branched distribution networks is presented in this paper. The algorithm uses a binary solution-coding scheme that is similar to the type commonly used in genetic ...

Abstract: An approach to facilitate the development and verification of a geographic information system for managing a water‐distribution network data base is proposed. The approach, which was developed for use in reliability analysis ...

Abstract: A model for rural land‐use allocation in terms of areas allocated to floodwater storage and types of crops grown is presented. The model integrates a dynamic programming formulation with a procedure for recognizing variation ...

Abstract: Two quantitative approaches to the incorporation of reliability measures in the least‐cost design of looped water distribution networks are developed and assessed. Both approaches begin by obtaining an “optimal” layout ...