A Novel Formulation for Designing a Monitoring Strategy: Application to the Design of a River Quality Monitoring System

Optimizing the Design of an Estuarine Water Quality Monitoring Network by Optimal Control Techniques

“…The aim of our research is to present a novel and effective approach to the problem of the optimal sampling points allocation within a simulation-based optimization framework, in the spirit of previous works of the authors for the case of a river water quality monitoring system [12][13][14], although this previous one-dimensional issue was a much simpler problem, both from the simulation viewpoint and from the optimization one. Here, we formulate the problem as a two-level optimization problem, where the upper level problem is the optimal fixing of the sampling points locations -given by their ability to capture the correct information on intensity and location of possible pollution releases -and the lower level problems are related to the optimal determination of these pollution sources.…”