Ranking Alternative Plans for the Santa Cruz River Basin by Q-Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Pfaff, Ronald T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duckstein, Lucien | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-06T15:31:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-06T15:31:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981-05-02 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0272-6106 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301260 | |
| dc.description | From the Proceedings of the 1981 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona - Nevada Academy of Science - May 1-2, 1981, Tucson, Arizona | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper introduces an intuitive, multicriterion decision making aid utilizing Q-analysis, a technique based in algebraic topology and set theory. This aid ranks twenty-five alternative plans for the water resource management and flood control of the Santa Cruz River Basin. These twenty -five plans have been described in terms of thirteen weighted criteria. Q-analysis is used to investigate a series of binary matrices formed over a range of threshold levels (TLs), indicating different levels at which the plans satisfy the criteria. A computer package performs both Q-analysis and slicing over the TL range. A short discussion concerning additional information that can be drawn from the multicriterion Q-analysis has also been included. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hydrology -- Arizona. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water resources development -- Arizona. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hydrology -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water resources development -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
| dc.title | Ranking Alternative Plans for the Santa Cruz River Basin by Q-Analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.type | Proceedings | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest | en_US |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | This article is part of the Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest collections. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science and the University of Arizona Libraries. For more information about items in this collection, contact anashydrology@gmail.com. | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-05-28T15:39:11Z | |
| html.description.abstract | This paper introduces an intuitive, multicriterion decision making aid utilizing Q-analysis, a technique based in algebraic topology and set theory. This aid ranks twenty-five alternative plans for the water resource management and flood control of the Santa Cruz River Basin. These twenty -five plans have been described in terms of thirteen weighted criteria. Q-analysis is used to investigate a series of binary matrices formed over a range of threshold levels (TLs), indicating different levels at which the plans satisfy the criteria. A computer package performs both Q-analysis and slicing over the TL range. A short discussion concerning additional information that can be drawn from the multicriterion Q-analysis has also been included. |
