Academic Catalog

CE7015 SOFT COMPUTING METHODS FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Course Code: 5627015
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Civil Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ELÇÝN KENTEL ERDOÐAN
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Water resources planning and management under uncertainty, need for soft computing techniques, soft computing techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANN), fuzzy inference systems (FIS), genetic algorithms (GA), application of these techniques to water resources engineering problems such as river flow estimation, reservoir operation, etc.