A new approach for optimization of long-term operation of large-scale reservoirs is presented, incorporating Incremental Dynamic Programming (IDP) and Genetic algorithm (GA) . The immense storage capacity of the large scale reservoirs enlarges feasible region of the operational decision...

This paper presents two operating rules for the refill and drawdown seasons of reservoirs in parallel for water supply, considering water quality. For the refill season a Linear Programming form of the New York City Rule is developed. Another Linear Programming form based on equalizing the...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been fairly successful in a diverse range of optimization problems, providing an efficient and robust way for guiding a search even in a complex system and in the absence of domain knowledge. In this paper, two types of genetic algorithms, real-coded and...