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Guidelines for Managing Complex Scenarios for Optimization of Infrastructure Transformations

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Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure (AHFE 2017)

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Infrastructure transformation strategies in rural areas are influenced by a lot of diverse aspects such as climatic or demographic changes. The optimization of these strategies is based on scenarios, which are basically containers holding input data. This paper presents recommendations for the design of a scenario assistant system to generate complex, but complete, valid and consistent scenarios in an intuitive and simple way for experts and non-experts in the water supply and waste water disposal domain. Requirements were collected in several workshops with domain experts and end users. The concept recommendations have been derived to improve and speed up the development process of future scenario management assistants.

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The work in this paper has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, project “SinOptiKom”, 033W009A).

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    Johannes Schwank & Sebastian Schöffel

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Schwank, J., Schöffel, S. (2018). Guidelines for Managing Complex Scenarios for Optimization of Infrastructure Transformations. In: Charytonowicz, J. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 600. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60450-3_2

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