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Redesigning Water Distribution Networks Using a Guided Evolutionary Approach

Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, José Pedro  
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Monteiro, Antonio J.
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Matias, Natercia M.
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2016
Journal Of Water Resources Planning And Management

The paper describes and discusses the application of a guided evolutionary approach for the optimization of water distribution networks. Initially developed for the Battle of the Water Networks II (BWN-II), the approach was adapted and improved for competing in the Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks (BBLAWN). The proposed evolutionary approach operates in an exclusively discrete solution space and is intended to require as little engineering judgment and time as possible while attaining acceptable and informative results that are useful for decision making. Its main features are custom crossover and mutation operators specific for water distribution network optimization tasks. A simple postprocessing greedy algorithm to locally refine pipe replacements is introduced as a means of complementing the evolutionary approach. (C) 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers.

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research article
DOI
10.1061/(Asce)Wr.1943-5452.0000586
Web of Science ID

WOS:000374794000004

Author(s)
Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, José Pedro  
Monteiro, Antonio J.
Matias, Natercia M.
Schleiss, Anton  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers

Published in
Journal Of Water Resources Planning And Management
Volume

142

Issue

5

Article Number

C4015004

Subjects

Evolutionary algorithms

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Leakage assessment

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Optimization

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Water supply

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Water losses

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[1102]

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PL-LCH  
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July 19, 2016
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