“…The evaluation of complex system schemes often involves many indicators, and the relationship between indicators is also complex. Conventional scheme decision-making methods mainly adopt the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and the fusion of objective information and subjective information, such as fuzzy optimization method (Xu and Zhao, 2008;Ignatius et al, 2018;Sitorus and Brito-Parada, 2022), grey relational analysis (GRA) (Xia et al, 2016;Tian et al, 2018;Cai et al, 2021), TOPSIS method (Liu and Zhang, 2014;Imam and Gurol, 2018), projection pursuit (PP) (Lan and Huang, 2018;Lee, 2018;Cho and Lee, 2021), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Wang et al, 2021;Yu et al, 2021;Ye and Chen, 2022) and artificial neural network (Galdo et al, 2021;Yuan et al, 2021;Leng and Huang, 2022). In the decision-making field of reservoir operation schemes, Zhu et al (2017b) used TOPSIS method, fuzzy optimization method and fuzzy matter-element method to rank all feasible flood control alternatives of multi-reservoir system, and the optimization scheme provides support for decision-making.…”