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Project code: 2-11-080


APPLICATION OF EXPERT SYSTEMS IN WATER MANAGEMENT IN CROATIA


Main researcher: PETRAŠ, JOSIP (89593)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 04/30/91. to 04/30/96.
Papers on project (total): 60
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 1
Institution name: Građevinski fakultet, Zagreb (82)
Department/Institute: Water Research Department
Address: Kačićeva 26
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)1 4561-260
Fax: 385 (0)1 416-621
Summary: The researchis is oriented to creating of software and informatic preconditions for future more successful management of water resources in Croatia. Such management in modern practice of technically advanced countries implies systematic approach, i.e.planning, implementation and use of (multipurpose) water management systems. For the purpose managing such systems in any stage of their development (from planning to use at any level of their physical completion), expert systems are being introduced and developed. Conceiving and application of such systems in water management require scientific research aimed at identifying and defining of all relevant processes in the system, and all interactive connections between all water management and other activities, which is set as the principal objective of this research project. The secondary objective is to contribute to the development of the integral water management information system covering the entire territory of Croatia, in the absence of which a application of expert systems and successful management of water resources would be practically impossible. In the framework of the major objective, the preliminary target of the project is to identify and to systematize all important water management problems in Croatia. the research is carried out by application of the principles and methods of system analysis and synthesis, as well as of concepts and methods of other relevant scientific branches, first of all hydroengineering, ecology, economics and social science. In addition, enquieries are conducted to collect the knowledge and experience of water management experts who had or have made considerable contribution to the development of water resources management in Croatia. The final stage of the research includes plans for elaboration of the expert system for managing of the flood protection system in the area of Zagreb and the Central Sava Basin.

Keywords: water resources, water management, water resources system, water economy, policy analysis, expert system, water use, water protection, environmental, water power, water supply, melioration, water storage, (non)reliability, risk, damage, cost, benefit.

Research goals: The growing demand for water and markedly unfavourable distribution of water resources, both with regard to location and time, in Croatia indicate the necessity of particular attention to be paid to these resources. In this respect, this research project is oriented to creating of informatic and software preconditions for future more successful management of water resources in Croatia. Modern methods of solving the problems of water resources management imply systematic approach, i.e. planning, implementation and operation of multipurpose water management systems. Such systems are, according to Neuman's wording, large and mainly poorly organized systems, including large numbers of water control facilities, where it is hardly possible to separate all the processes and clearly define all interconnections between their respective components of configuration. At the highest level of generalization, it is possible, to a certain extent, to conduct such systems in all stages, i.e. planning, development and use. For this purpose, expert systems are being currently developed and applied worldwide, based on contemporary results of development of artificial intelligence, existing knowledge in relevant branches of science, and on implementation of experience and knowledge of water management experts. Formation and use of expert systems in water management imply the need of research and identification of water management problems, as well as all connections and processes taking place within the existing systems. Meeting of this requirement has been set as the objective of this research project, and implementation of this objective implies establishing of the integral water management information system of Croatia. The optimaly configuration of monitoring subsystem of thet information system is expected to be proposed at the end of this research project.

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: bez šifre ISTRAŽIVANJE FENOMENA EROZIJE TLA VODOM I ZAŠTITA VODA U HRVATSKOJ
    Name of institution: JAVNO VODOPRIVREDNO PODUZEĆE "HRVATSKA VODOPRIVREDA" ZAGREB
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: 1.) JAVNO VODOPRIVREDNO PODUZEĆE "HRVATSKA VODOPRIVREDA", ZAGREB, AVENIJA VUKOVAR 220
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: 3.) VODOOPSKRBNI SISTEM ISTRE "VODOVOD BUTONIGA" - BUZET
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Buzet, HRVATSKA

  3. Name of institution: 2.) AGRONOMSKI FAKULTET SVEUČILIŠTA U ZAGREBU, ZAGREBSVETOŠIMUNSKA CESTA 25
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  4. Name of institution: 4.) JAVNO VODOPRIVREDNO PODUZEĆE "HRVATSKA VODOPRIVREDA" ORGANIZACIJSKA JEDINICA RIJEKA
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 51000 - Rijeka, Croatia

  5. Name of institution: 5.) JAVNO VODOPRIVREDNO PODUZEĆE ZA SLIVNO PODRUČJE ISTARSKIH SLIVOVA - LABIN
    Type of institution: Other
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 52220 - Labin, Croatia

  6. Name of institution: 6.) INSTITUT ZA POLJOPRIVREDU I TURIZAM - POREČ
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 52440 - Poreč, Croatia

  7. Name of institution: 7.) ŠUMARSKI FAKULTET ZAGREB
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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