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<br />~ n' <br />.~ <br />':1 "f <br /> <br />- includes fully interactive preprocessor for data f1J.e creation <br />and editing in a menu-driven format <br /> <br />- color-graphic output available for displaying information <br />on flows, storage, demands, etc. throughout a complex <br />river basin network <br /> <br />- designed to be suitable for use by water management <br />personnel with little computing experience. <br /> <br />MOTIVATION <br /> <br />simulation of large-scale, complex water resource systems <br />requires efficient methodologies for analyzing system <br />components in a fully integrated manner <br /> <br />sum of benefits from separate operation of individual system <br />components cannot achieve the benefits possible from a <br />totally integrated analysis of system <br /> <br />although many existing river basin simulation models able to <br />model hydrological aspects of integrated system operations, <br />important institutional and legal factors governing water <br />allocation in a river basin are rarely given proper <br />consideration <br /> <br />MODSIM employs an optimization algorithm to assure that <br />water is properly allocated according to legal and institutional <br />priorities in a computationally efficient manner <br /> <br />use of optimization greatly enhances system simulation, in <br />contrast with prevailing thought that simulation and <br />optimization must be regarded as completely separate <br />modeling technologies. <br /> <br />2 <br />