Weiwei Bi

TL;DR: A new heuristic procedure called the Prescreened Heuristic Sampling Method (PHSM) is proposed and tested on seven WDS cases studies of varying size and shows that PHSM clearly performs best overall, both in terms of computational efficiency and the ability to find near-optimal solutions.

TL;DR: A review of the state of the art in this field can be found in this article, where the authors present a framework for categorizing the methods used in the seven domains of geophysics considered in this review.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the use of online retrained metamodels for the optimization of water distribution system (WDS) design, where artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to replace the full hydraulic and water quality simulation models and differential evolution (DE) is utilized to carry out the optimization.

TL;DR: Developing and testing a method for identifying high-quality initial populations for multiobjective EAs (MOEAs) for WDS design problems aimed at minimizing cost and maximizing network resilience and the benefit of using the proposed approach compared with randomly generating initial popu...

TL;DR: The use of the run-time measure metrics to reveal the underlying searching behavior of the MOEA’s operators’ searching behavior offers guidance for selecting appropriate operators for real-world water resources problems, but also builds fundamental knowledge for developing more advanced MOEAs in future.