Title: Interactive Spreadsheet Modelling of Regulation Strategies for a Lake-River System

Authors: Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Juha Mäntysaari

Date: May, 1998

Status: Proceedings of the 17th IASTED International Conference; Modelling, Identification and Control, February 18-20, Grindelwald, Switzerland, pp. 181-184.

Keywords: Optimal control, Multicriteria, Water resources, Spreadsheets

This paper describes a modelling tool running on the Excel spreadsheet software. With the introduction of the optimization solver in Excel it has become a practical platform for the development of visual interactive models even for relatively complex problems. The present model solves a dynamic multicriteria optimization problem describing the regulation of a lake-river system in Finland. This tool will be used by the authorities and the Finnish Environment Institute (FEI) in demonstrating the possibilities for the regulation policy when optimized from the different perspectives of the stakeholders.