Least cost design of groundwater quality monitoring networks

The Least Cost Design of Water Distribution Networks Using Water Quality Constraints

Water quality is a very important issue related to people health, but it is not usually considered in water distribution networks (WDNs) design. In this paper, new constraints such as free residual chlorine and the quality performance index are incorporated into the least cost design of water distribution networks. EPANET2 was applied for the hydraulic and quality analysis of water distributio...

Project Title : Least - Cost Groundwater Remediation Design Using Uncertain

Low-cost robotic sensor networks platform for air quality monitoring

Building robotic sensor networks (RSNs) for air quality monitoring application is a challenging frontier for robotic research. Such systems must operate for extended periods of time in unstructured and complex domains. The implementation requires addressing numerous issues at the systems level such as energy efficiency, planning, and controlling robots’ trajectories for achieving robust operati...

BIG BANG – BIG CRUNCH ALGORITHM FOR LEAST-COST DESIGN OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

The Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB–BC) method is a relatively new meta-heuristic algorithm which inspired by one of the theories of the evolution of universe. In the BB–BC optimization algorithm, firstly random points are produced in the Big Bang phase then these points are shrunk to a single representative point via a center of mass or minimal cost approach in the Big Crunch phase. In this paper, the...

Designing Least-Cost Nonblocking Broadband Networks

Integrated network technologies, such as ATM, support multimedia applications with vastly diierent bandwidth needs, connection request rates, and holding patterns. Due to their high level of exibility and communication rates approaching several gigabits per second, the classical network planning techniques, which rely heavily on statistical analysis, are less relevant to this new generation of ...