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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.).

  4. Programming skills are limited. All use Internet and (web and e/mail services).

  5. 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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