Environmental Decision Support Systems as a Service: Demonstration on CE-QUAL-W2 Model

Authors

Yoav Bornstein, University of Haifa
Ben Dayan, Independent Researcher
Amir Cahn, University of Haifa
Scott A. Wells, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Water

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2-2022

Subjects

Water Security -- Resources

Abstract

An environmental decision support system (EDSS) can be used as an important tool for the rehabilitation and preservation of ecosystems. Nonetheless, high assimilation costs (both money and time) are one of the main reasons these tools are not widely adopted in practice. This work presents a low-cost paradigm of “EDSS as a Service.” This paradigm is demonstrated for developing a water quality EDSS as a service that utilizes the well-known CE-QUAL-W2 model as a kernel for deriving optimized decisions. The paradigm is leveraging new open-source technologies in software development (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm) with cloud computing to significantly reduce the assimilation costs of the EDSS.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.3390/w14060885

DOI

10.3390/w14060885

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37407

Citation Details

Bornstein, Y., Dayan, B., Cahn, A., Wells, S., & Housh, M. (2022). Environmental Decision Support Systems as a Service: Demonstration on CE-QUAL-W2 Model. Water, 14(6), 885.