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Prof.
Bojan Srdjevic
Full Professor
National Contact Point
Department for Water Management
Faculty
of Agriculture
University
of Novi Sad
Trg D. Obradovica 8
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia and Montenegro
Telephone : +381-21-455770
Fax : +381-21-455713
http://polj.ns.ac.yu
bojans@polj.ns.ac.yu
The
Department of Water Management of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi
Sad, Serbia and Montenegro (DWMFA), is public governmental institution of high
level education. It is located in the city of Novi Sad (500.000 inhabitants),
capital of Vojvodina Province of Serbia, most productive agricultural area in
the country. Faculty of Agriculture was founded in 1953 to develop new
generation of agricultural engineers after Second World War, while Department of
Water Management was founded in 1974 to establish more profound education and
research in water resources planning and control, with emphasis on irrigation
methods and practices, flood control, water quality preservation, surface and
subsurface water exploitation etc.
URL:
http://polj.ns.ac.yu
E-Mail: bojans@polj.ns.ac.yu
The Department of Water Management has
significant experience in monitoring, analysing and managing water resources in
Vojvodina Province. To lower extent land and forestry resources are also part of
DWM’s scientific, educational and professional background. Most recently,
DWM`s interest is in implementation of decision support tools for participative
(group) decision-making in water management. This includes evaluating control
strategies in irrigation, large-scale and small-scale systems control, scaling
decision processes to rational sizes, creating user friendly framework with
regard to knowledge and other attributes of the decision maker, selecting best
development plans, etc.
Experience
gained in last 30 years and international and national references in the area,
as well as recognition and involvement in creating the state-of-art top
standards (referred international journals and foreign research and/or
assignments) qualify the DWM as competent and reliable partner within CARIMAN
Consortium. Besides, there is a will to employ DWM`s knowledge and experience in
SEE part of Europe within global European Community and cooperate professionally
with other Consortium members in common interest and for benefit of all.
Some
facts:
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Department
consists of 9 DR., 4 MS, 2 BS, and 6-supporting staff. Their professional
background is in agriculture, civil eng., electrical eng., mechanical eng., and
geology.
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There
is an obvious need in Vojvodina Province to improve risk assessment of both
flood and drought seasons which greatly influence agricultural and related
industrial production. Of particular importance is to manage on local regional
and national scale land and water resources, by continuous monitoring and
assessment of strategies and operational policies that preserve sustainable
agriculture.
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DWM
has significant background (expertise) in: river basin modelling and simulation,
system performance description and evaluation (risk, resiliency, vulnerability),
structuring hierarchies of decision problems, multicriteria decision-making
methods and tools (both crisp and fuzzy: AHP, Promethee, Topsis, SAW, SPW, CP
etc.).
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Programming
skills are limited. All use Internet and (web and e/mail services).
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Most
recent references are attached only for team-leader Prof. Srdjevic. For other
contributors they are available on request.
Contribution
to CARIMAN
DWM
will contribute by participating in development of computerized framework that
combines river basin simulation and multi-criteria analysis, adaptive and
adjustable on demand of the user.
Simulation
part will include network based models such as MODSIM or
ACQUANET and new modules will be developed for re-processing their output
to derive hazard (drought/flood) related performance indicators that in turn
provide evaluation of system`s performance, i.e. effects of applied operational
strategies.
Multicriteria
analysis part will require to develop extensive criteria set for evaluating
water system performance, and procedures for unbiased shrinking this set for
specific regional or local risk-related operating situations that may be
encountered (both droughts and floods), then developing a method for unbiased
and dynamic weighting of these criteria (regarding degree of hazard occurrence),
and finally fast multicriteria analysis of the simulated effects of applied
control. Control strategies applied in ste simulation part of the process are
foreseen as discrete decision alternatives. Multicriteria evaluation will be
accomplished by scoring scenarios across criteria after simulations of scenarios
are performed by river basin simulation model, i.e. by post-processing model’s
output to derive values of performance indicators. Weights of importance for all
criteria should be developed automatically by straightforward evaluation of
decision matrix as the raster of values describing system’s performance under
risky conditions. The AHP as universal decision support tool, and TOPSIS or
Compromise Programming techniques as recognized ideal-point methods, are
anticipated as candidates to perform ranking of the control scenarios and point
most acceptable one for implementation.
CV
of the partners
BOJAN SRDJEVIC is full Professor in water resources systems and informatics at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro. He is also visiting professor of the Escola Politecnica, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil. He graduated from the Electrical Eng. Faculty in Belgrade, and from 1974 to 1980 he was working as research fellow in the Mihailo Pupin Institute in Belgrade on water resources systems analysis and large scale systems control. In 1980 he joined Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad. After completion of MS work in 1984 and PhD 1987, he took charge in high education on graduate and postgraduate studies at Universities of Novi Sad, Belgrade and Salvador in diverse areas of water resources planning and management, informatics, applied computer programming, operations research and advanced mathematical methods. His more recent research interests are in natural resources management, performance analysis of complex water resources systems, combinatorial optimisation by evolution based (genetic) algorithms and ant colony systems, multicriteria analysis, optimization and decision-making. He is recognized national and international expert in water resources systems analysis, multicriteria modelling and decision-making, and information systems development. He has been involved or has been leading more than 70 research and professional projects. Presently, he is consultant to BRL ingenierie, Nimes (France), and to FAPEAM – State Agency for Advanced Research in Amazonia (A Fundação do Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas), Brazil, responsible for evaluation of submitted projects under the Integrated Research and Innovative Technologies Programme (PIPT).
Publications
Mijatovic
B., and Srdjevic B.: Strategy of water supply in Vojvodina Province, Yugoslavia,
Proceedings of 29th IAH Congress “Hydrogeology and land use management”, pp.
867-873, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 1999.
Srdjevic
B., Jandric Z., and Potkonjak S.: Evaluation of potential reservoir purposes by
analytic hierarchy process, Journal of Water Resources ‘Vodoprivreda’, 32
(183-185), 237-242, 2000.
Jandric
Z., and Srdjevic B.: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in selecting best
groundwater pond, 31. International
Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 6-17, 2000.
Jandric
Z., and Srdjevic B.: Analytic herarchy process as decision support system in
water management, Journal on Water Resources ‘Vodoprivreda’, 032 (186-188),
327-334, 2000.
Srdjevic
B., Medeiros Y., Srdjevic Z., and Schaer M.: Evaluating management strategies in
Paraguacu river basin by analytic hierarchy process, Proceedings of the iEMSs
2002 – First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modeling and
Software Society, Theme: Integrated
Assessment and Decision Support, (A.E. Rizzoli and A.J. Jakeman eds.), Vol. 1,
pp. 42-47, Lugano, Switzerland. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2002,
2002.
Faria
A.S., Srdjevic B., Medeiros Y.D.P., and Schaer-Barbosa M.: Modelo de Redes de
Fluxo e Análise Multi-Criterial – Uma Aplicação à Gestão de Recursos Hídricos
na Bacia do Rio Paraguaçu, VI Simposio de Recursos Hídricos do Nordeste, Maceió,
AL, Brasil, 3 a 6 Dez 2002. (VI Symposium on Water
Resources of Northeast Brazil, Maceio/AL, Brazil, December 3-6, 2002).
Srdjevic
B.: Evaluation of storage reservoir purposes by means of multicriteria
optimization models, Journal on Water Resources ‘Vodoprivreda’ 34 (195-200),
35-45, 2002.
Srdjevic
B., Srdjevic Z., and Zoranovic T.: PROMETHEE, TOPSIS and CP in multicriteria
decision making in agriculture, Annals of Scientific
Work, 26(1), 5-23, 2002.
Srdjevic
B.: Decision making by analytic hierarchy process, In: Monograph
’Melioration and Agriculture’, Faculty
of Agriculture, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 204-221,2002.
Srdjevic
Z., Srdjevic B., Potkonjak S., Zoranovic T.: Allocation
of land to agricultural crops in presence of irrigation and drainage: An
approach based on the analytic hierarchy process, In:
Monograph ’Melioration and Agriculture’, Faculty
of Agriculture, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 222-239, 2002.
Srdjevic
B., and Jandric Z.: Walnut cultivars evaluation by analytic hierarchy process,
Journal of Yugoslav Pomology, 33 (137-138) (2002/1-2), 69-78, 2002.
Srdjevic
B., Medeiros Y.D.P., Faria A.S., Schaer M.: Objective Evaluation of Performance
Criteria for a Reservoir System (Objektivno vrednovanje kriterijuma performanse
sistema akumulacija),
Journal of Water Resources ‘Vodoprivreda’, 35
(203-204), 168-176, 2003.
Srdjevic
B., and Srdjevic D.: Evolution Based Scheduling of Chemical Reactions – A Case
Study, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 11(1), 35-42, 2004 (in
press).
Srdjevic
B., Medeiros Y.D.P., and Faria A.S.: An objective multi-criteria evaluation of
water management scenarios, International Journal of Water Management (Kluwer
Academic Publishers) (accepted).
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