Multi-Criteria Optimal Planning for Energy Policies in CLP
  In the policy making process a number of disparate and diverse issues such as
economic development, environmental aspects, as well as the social acceptance
of the policy, need to be considered. A single person might not have all the
required expertises, and decision support systems featuring optimization
components can help to assess policies. Leveraging on previous work on
Strategic Environmental Assessment, we developed a fully-fledged system that is
able to provide optimal plans with respect to a given objective, to perform
multi-objective optimization and provide sets of Pareto optimal plans, and to
visually compare them. Each plan is environmentally assessed and its footprint
is evaluated. The heart of the system is an application developed in a popular
Constraint Logic Programming system on the Reals sort. It has been equipped
with a web service module that can be queried through standard interfaces, and
an intuitive graphic user interface.
