美国数学建模竞赛特等奖论文——mcm 2006 judge A【数学建模】.pdfVIP

Judges Commentary 329 Judges Commentary: The Outstanding Irrigation Problem Papers Daniel Zwillinger Raytheon Company 528 Boston Post Road Sudbury, MA 01776 Introduction Irrigation planning is a real-life activity with many complexities; good sys- tem design can demonstrate profound water savings. For the contest problem, an entire region must be minimally watered but not overwatered, and trade-offs between fixed and periodically moved equipment must be made. As in any real-life modeling activity, the approaches, metrics, and results of others can be obtained with little effort-when applicable, this earlier work should be used, or improved upon. For example, the most widely used mea- sure of irrigation uniformity in the turf industry is Christiansens uniformity coefficient. Also, manufacturers specifications of sprinkler characteristics are easily obtained. The components appearing in a solution must be identified. For this prob- lem, the judges were looking for the following components: *Defined constraints on the problem, such as the needed water flow rate. *Subjective constraints on the problem, such as what optimal is. *Created constraints on the problem, such as the water distribution pattern from a single sprinkler. *One or more metrics by which a solution can be evaluated. *A procedure for obtaining an optimal solution. *A description of the optimal solution. The UMAPJournal27 (3) (2006) 329-332. @Copyright 2006 by COMAP,Inc. All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice. Abstracting with credit is permitted, but copyrights for components of this work owned by others than COMAP must be honored.