dc.contributor.author | Marques, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Cunha, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Savić, D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-05T09:01:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-09-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Water distribution networks are key infrastructure that provide essential water supply to communities. Planning water distribution networks involves many actors, including water companies, governments, environmentalists, consumers and financing institutions, and they tend to have conflicting perspectives. This work proposes a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) as a useful tool for providing decision support in such circumstances. A phased planning horizon scheme is proposed that identifies the design for the first time interval while considering possible future conditions that the network might have to cope with. The results identify the best ranked phased design solutions. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This paper is based on research conducted under the DESAFIO project (www.desafioglobal.org). DESAFIO is
funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union for research, technological development and
demonstration under grant agreement no. 320303. The information contained in this work reflects only the opinion
of the authors and the European Union is not responsible for the use which may be made of the information
contained therein. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 119, pp. 1231-1240 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.983 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21389 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705815026533 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . This is the final version of the article. Available online via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water distribution networks | en_GB |
dc.subject | multicriteria analysis | en_GB |
dc.subject | phased design | en_GB |
dc.subject | optimization | en_GB |
dc.title | A multicriteria approach for a phased design of water distribution networks | en_GB |
dc.type | Conference paper | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-05T09:01:31Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1877-7058 | |
dc.description | Published | en_GB |
dc.description | 13th Computer Control for Water Industry Conference, CCWI 2015 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Procedia Engineering | en_GB |