Article ID: | iaor200972086 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 398 |
End Page Number: | 405 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
Journal: | IIE Transactions |
Authors: | Escudero L F, Almintildeana M, Landete M, Monge J F, Rabasa A, Sanchez-Soriano J |
Keywords: | agriculture & food, programming: integer |
We present a mixed zero-one separable non-linear approach to the optimization of the management of water resources used for agricultural irrigation purposes. It provides dynamic planning of the daily irrigation scheduling for a given land area by considering the irrigation network topography, water flow conditions and logistical operation constraints in order to optimize the use of water stored in a reservoir. We present a mixed zero-one separable non-linear program and a solution procedure that iteratively solves a mixed zero-one linear approximation of the model. We are not aware of any previous attempt to solve large-scale mixed zero-one separable non-linear programs of this kind. Some computational experiences on a large-scale real-life problem are reported.