Hydroinformatics, data mining and maintenance of UK water networks

Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 415-425

  Savic, Dragan A ^a   Walters, Godfrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Corrosion; Data mining; Genetic algorithms; Geographic information systems; Water industry

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

HYDROINFORMATICS; WATER INDUSTRY;

WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

CORROSION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NEURAL NETWORK; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0033380815     PISSN: 00035599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00035599910299379     Document Type: Article

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