<Para ID="Par1">Optimal design of irrigation and water supply reservoirs under reliability constraints may be categorized as large combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, the reliability based optimum design of a single water supply reservoir is formulated as a mixed integer programming and a hybrid...</para>

Reservoir operation rules are intended to help an operator so that water releases and storage capacities are in the best interests of the system objectives. In multi-reservoir systems, a large number of feasible operation policies may exist. System engineering and optimization techniques can...