Title

Optimal sensor deployment in a large-scale complex drinking water network: Comparisons between a rule-based decision support system and optimization models

Authors

Authors

N. B. Chang; N. Prapinpongsanone;A. Ernest

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Comput. Chem. Eng.

Keywords

Rule-based decision support system; Sensor deployment; Water; distribution system; Graph theory; Systems analysis; PLACEMENT; SECURITY; DESIGN; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Engineering, Chemical

Abstract

Many models or algorithms have been suggested for sensor placement in the drinking water distribution networks, such as genetic algorithms, multiobjective optimization models, and heuristic methods. Because these models or algorithms have high computational demands, however, the requirement of expensive technical computing software is unavoidable. This study presents a rule-based decision support system (RBDSS) to analyze and generate a set of sensor placement locations and compares the performance against 10 optimization models based on four indexes. Our findings show that the RBDSS demands relatively lower computational time and still exhibits outstanding performance in terms of all our indexes when dealing with a large-scale complex drinking water network. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Computers & Chemical Engineering

Volume

43

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

191

Last Page

199

WOS Identifier

WOS:000306209600015

ISSN

0098-1354

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