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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE Volume 26, Number 6, 2009 ª Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089=ees.2007.0289 Dual-Interval Linear Programming Model and Its Application to Solid Waste Management Planning Zhenfang Liu,1 Guohe Huang,1,* Xianghui Nie,1 and Li He2 1Environmental Systems Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Received: October 25, 2007 Accepted in revised form: February 26, 2009 Abstract A dual-interval parameter linear programming (DILP) model was developed and applied to the planning of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems under uncertainty. The DILP can address system un- certainties with complex presentations. Parameters in the DILP can be expressed as interval numbers; however, due to the complexity of the real world, highly uncertain information may exist in the boundaries of interval parameters. When sufficient information for these boundaries is available to access intervals, the novel concept of dual interval (being an interval-boundary interval) can be developed for handling such uncertainties and be introduced into the existing interval-parameter linear programming (ILP) framework; this leads to the DILP method where the uncertain parameters are represented as single or dual intervals. The DILP approach im- proves upon the ILP method by allowing dual uncertainties (presented as dual intervals) to be incorporated into the optimization processes. Decision alternatives can be generated through analysis of the single- and dual- interval solutions according to projected applicable conditions. Applicability of