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

摘要

The authors are to be commended for adding a new technique to the seemingly replete arsenal of optimization procedures for this problem. But this is not indeed a new technique. In fact so far only evolutionary algorithms have been proved to deal with the discrete nature of commercial pipe diameters without resorting to rounding continuous diameters or splitting the pipe reach into two segments.