Holistic water quality models to support decision-making in lowland catchments with competing stakeholder perspectives are still limited. To address this gap, an integrated system dynamics model for quantity and (including stream temperature, dissolved oxygen, macronutrients) was developed. Adaptable plug-n-play modules handle the complexity (sources, pathways) related both urban agricultural/n...

We study optimal conformity measures for various criteria of efficiency in an idealized setting. This leads to an important class of criteria of efficiency that we call probabilistic; it turns out that the most standard criteria of efficiency used in literature on conformal prediction are not probabilistic.

Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) has emerged as a key technique for multiagent coordination. Unfortunately, while previous work in DCOP focuses on optimizing a single team objective, domains often require satisfying additional criteria. This paper provides a novel multi-criteria DCOP algorithm, based on two key ideas: (i) transforming multi-criteria problems via virtual variables to h...

Hydrological modelling at a catchment scale was conducted to investigate the impact of climate change and land-use individually in combination with available streamflow Painkalac using an eWater Source hydrological model. This study compares performance three inbuilt conceptual models within Source, such as Australian water balance model (AWBM), Sacramento GR4J for simulation. The three-model p...

XNiSn (X = Ti, Zr and Hf) half-Heusler alloys have promising thermoelectric properties and are attracting enormous interest for use in waste heat recovery. In particular, multiphase behaviour has been linked to reduced lattice thermal conductivities, which enables improved energy conversion efficiencies. This manuscript describes the impact of spark plasma sintering (SPS) on the phase distribut...

In this paper, a glacial module based on an enhanced temperature-index approach was successfully introduced into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate the glacier runoff and water balance of a glacierized watershed, the mountainous region of the Yarkant River Basin (YRB) in Karakoram. Calibration and validation of the SWAT model were based on comparisons between the simula...

‎In this paper, we present a two-stage model for ranking of decision making units (DMUs) using interval analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to the efficient units, we evaluate the efficiency of each DMU by basic DEA models and calculate the weights of the criteria using proposed model. In the first stage, the proposed model evaluates decision making...