Water distribution systems optimal design using cross entropy

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 647-648

  Perelman, Lina ^a   Ostfeld, Avi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Combinatorial Optimization; Cross Entropy; Optimal Design; Water Distribution Systems; Water Resources

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENTROPY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; CROSS-ENTROPY; OPTIMAL DESIGN;

LOGIC DESIGN;

EID: 32444434919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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