Optimisation of the operation of water distribution systems has been an active research field
for almost half a century. It has focused mainly on optimal pump operation to minimise …

Complex systems are very often organized under the form of networks where nodes and
edges are embedded in space. Transportation and mobility networks, Internet, mobile phone …

Pipe bursts in water distribution networks lead to considerable water loss and pose risks of
bacteria and pollutant contamination. Pipe burst localisation methods help water service …

Following a companion paper on analytical methods, this paper presents simulation as a
complementary method for analyzing the reliability of water distribution networks. For this …

Optimisation of water distribution system design is a well-established research field, which
has been extremely productive since the end of the 1980s. Its primary focus is to minimise …

Watts and Strogatz, with the publication in 1998 of their seminal paper on small-world
networks, opened the golden era of complex networks studies and showed in particular how …

Various multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been applied to solve the
optimal design problems of a water distribution system (WDS). Such methods are able to …

The worldwide water supply represents a significant portion of the global energy
consumption. This energy consumption, related to the collection, treatment and …

This paper investigates the application of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to the
identification of the payoff characteristic between total cost and reliability of a water …

Leaky distribution systems are costly in terms of lost water, potentially adverse water quality
effects, and the energy consumed in supplying the leaks. To characterize the energy …