undoubtedly, sampling design is an important issue in monitoring of a water distribution network (wdn). the aim of the current paper which focuses on the localization of samplings, is to present a practical method for optimization of the position and number of the pressure measurements. this method works based on the assumption of some leakages in a network and searching for them by nodal press...

A. Operations strategy. Con…guring the right multiplant facility network plays an important role in a …rm’s operations strategy. Hayes & Wheelwright (1984) illustrate four approaches for formulating a multiplant facility strategy: physical facilities analysis, geographical network analysis, functional needs and corporate philosophy analysis, and product-process focus analysis. They argue that t...

It is often very challenging to plan expedient and cost-effective operations for service trucks under network design constraints, particularly on congested urban roadways. Hence, it is beneficial to simultaneously account for truck facility location design and network expansion decisions to mitigate the additional congestion caused by trucks and facilitate their routing. This paper develops an ...

Grid-connected battery energy storage systems with fast acting control are a key technology for improving power network stability and increasing the penetration of renewable generation. This paper describes two battery energy storage research facilities connected to the UK electricity grid. Their performance is detailed, along with hardware results, and a number of grid support services are dem...

Due to the increasing amount of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods and unnatural disasters such as war and terrorist attacks, Humanitarian Relief Chain (HRC) is taken into consideration of most countries. Besides, this paper aims to contribute humanitarian relief chains under uncertainty. In this paper, we address a humanitarian logistics network design problem including local dis...

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a novel protocol solution for distributing high quality compressed video streams to multiple receivers across a network. Our end-to-end protocol uses the connection-oriented multicast facility in the next-generation transport, the Xpress Transfer Protocol (XTP). XTP multicast provides in-order, multipoint delivery of packet streams with ...

In this paper we consider the inverse and reverse network facility location problems with considering the equity on servers. The inverse facility location with equality measure deals with modifying the weights of vertices with minimum cost, such that the difference between the maximum and minimum weights of clients allocated to the given facilities is minimized. On the other hand, the reverse c...