Closure to 'Optimization of Water Distribution Networks Using Integer Linear Programming' by Hossein M. V. Samani and Alireza Mottaghi

摘要

I would like to thank the discussers for their interesting and valuable comments. The validity of the integer linear programming approach was demonstrated by Examples 1 and 2. The authors selected a simple example (Example 1) because depicting all possible result combinations in a paper for a larger problem is not possible. It should be noted that even for the chosen simple example, sixteen possible combinations are shown. The second example represents a network that has been studied by many other researchers, including Alperovits and Shamir (1977), Goulter et al. (1986), Kessler and Shamir (1989), Eiger et al. (1994), and Savic and Walters (1997). The authors had to choose such an example in order to compare the results with those obtained by others for accuracy and run time. The main goal of presenting rather small examples in the paper is to introduce the integer linear programming approach as a new tool in this field that can be used for solving water distribution system optimization problems.