On the complexities of the design of water distribution networks
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the complexities of the design of water distribution networks
zbMATH Open document ID: 1264.90028
DOI: 10.1155/2012/947961
author: J. Izquierdo
author: Idel Montalvo
author: Rafael Pérez-García
author: Agustín Matías
published in: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
publication date: 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Water supply is one of the most recognizable and important public services contributing to quality of life. Water distribution networks (WDNs) are extremely complex assets. A number of complex tasks, such as design, planning, operation, maintenance, and management, are inherently associated with such networks. In this paper, we focus on the design of a WDN, which is a wide and open problem in hydraulic engineering. This problem is a large-scale combinatorial, nonlinear, nonconvex, multiobjective optimization problem, involving various types of decision variables and many complex implicit constraints. To handle this problem, we provide a synergetic association between swarm intelligence and multiagent systems where human interaction is also enabled. This results in a powerful collaborative system for finding solutions to such a complex hydraulic engineering problem. All the ingredients have been integrated into a software tool that has also been shown to efficiently solve problems from other engineering fields.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B10
zbMATH DE Number: 6173716
Wikidata QID: Q58912737
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MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/947961
OpenAlex ID: W1967123695
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