Proactive Risk-Based Integrity Assessment of Water Distribution Networks

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3715-3730

  Christodoulou, Symeon ^a   Agathokleous, Agathoklis ^a   Charalambous, Bambos ^b   Adamou, Aristides ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Water Board of Limassol   (Cyprus)

^c Water Board of Larnaca ^*  (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Risk analysis; Survival analysis; Water distribution networks

Indexed keywords

AGING INFRASTRUCTURE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SAMPLE; INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT; INTEGRITY MONITORING; KAPLAN-MEIER; NON-PARAMETRIC; REPAIR STRATEGY; RISK FACTORS; RISK OF FAILURE; RISK-BASED; STATISTICAL MODELLING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL CURVES; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; TIME TO FAILURE; URBAN WATERS; WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REPAIR; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84755160882     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9629-5     Document Type: Article

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