Introduction: Water resources planning, The system concept and characteristics, Issues in hydrosystems engineering, Design vs. analysis, Conventional vs. optimization methods, Reservoir system operation, Economics for Hydrosystems: Engineering economic analysis, Evaluation of time streams of benefits and costs, Simulation: Water balance simulation of a reservoir, Reservoir/River system configuration and operation, Deterministic Optimization: Plan formulation, Objective functions and constraint equations, Lagrange multiplier, Linear Programming (LP), Forms of LP, Solution algorithms for LP, Simplex method, Artificial variable methods, Sensitivity analysis, Simulation / Optimization methods, Dynamic Programming (DP), Concepts, Recursive equations, Applications, Integer Programming (IP), Mixed-integer linear programming, Chance constraint models, Search Methods: Genetic algorithms (Evolutionary method), Artificial Neural Networks (Simulation method)