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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 120, Issue 3, Pages 593-602Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00385-3
Keywords
networks; optimisation; genetic algorithms; water; gas
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In many utilities, such as water and gas, materials are distributed through networks of pipes. For efficiency, many such distribution networks are constructed as trees. The cost of construction and operation of these is generally a complex function of the edges which are used, so that it is impossible to use conventional algorithms for the optimisation of trees. This paper presents a method for identifying a tree which is dose to optimal. This evolutionary method is based on ideas from genetic algorithms. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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