From the Proceedings of the 1977 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 15-16, 1977, Las Vegas, Nevada / With the advent of ever -increasing energy needs, large-scale surface mining has gained new impetus, and there is much concern about reclaiming the mine spoils to bring about beneficial land uses. This paper presents a decision making algorithm labeled PROTRADE, and a case study of the Black Mesa region in Northern Arizona. PROTRADE considers a set of objective functions, a set of physical constraints, articulates the preferences of the decision maker in a progressive manner, and generates a set of alternative solutions. The decision maker is then able to trade level of achievement, for each objective function, against the probability of achieving that level.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/300987 |
Date | 16 April 1977 |
Creators | Goicoechea, Ambroes, Duckstein, Lucien, Fogel, Martin |
Contributors | Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, Departments of Systems and Industrial Engineering and Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, School of Renewable Natural Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 |
Publisher | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science |
Source Sets | University of Arizona |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text, Proceedings |
Rights | Copyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author. |
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