Geometry-Based Layout Generation with Hyper-Relations AMONG Objects

Toward Decentralised Sanitary Sewage Collection Systems: A Multiobjective Approach for Cost-Effective and Resilient Designs

Water ◽

10.3390/w13141886 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 1886

Author(s):

Arezoo Zahediasl ◽

Amin E. Bakhshipour ◽

Ulrich Dittmer ◽

Ali Haghighi

Keyword(s):

Treatment Plant ◽

Drainage System ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Optimization Approach ◽

Hydraulic Design ◽

Multiobjective Approach ◽

Layout Generation ◽

Plant Allocation ◽

Problem Solving Process

In recent years, the concept of a centralized drainage system that connect an entire city to one single treatment plant is increasingly being questioned in terms of the costs, reliability, and environmental impacts. This study introduces an optimization approach based on decentralization in order to develop a cost-effective and sustainable sewage collection system. For this purpose, a new algorithm based on the growing spanning tree algorithm is developed for decentralized layout generation and treatment plant allocation. The trade-off between construction and operation costs, resilience, and the degree of centralization is a multiobjective problem that consists of two subproblems: the layout of the networks and the hydraulic design. The innovative characteristics of the proposed framework are that layout and hydraulic designs are solved simultaneously, three objectives are optimized together, and the entire problem solving process is self-adaptive. The model is then applied to a real case study. The results show that finding an optimum degree of centralization could reduce not only the network’s costs by 17.3%, but could also increase its structural resilience significantly compared to fully centralized networks.

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Stiffener Layout Generation of Plate and Shell Structures by Pseudo-Growth Technique.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series A ◽

10.1299/kikaia.67.1730 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 67 (663) ◽

pp. 1730-1736 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Koetsu YAMAZAKI ◽

Yuya KOITABASHI

Keyword(s):

Shell Structures ◽

Growth Technique ◽

Plate And Shell ◽

Stiffener Layout ◽

Layout Generation

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Decoherence dynamics estimation for superconducting gate-model quantum computers

Quantum Information Processing ◽

10.1007/s11128-020-02863-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laszlo Gyongyosi

Keyword(s):

Gaussian Noise ◽

Quantum Computer ◽

Computer Architectures ◽

Quantum Circuits ◽

Optimal Placement ◽

Quantum Computers ◽

Intermediate Scale ◽

Layout Generation ◽

Quantum Technology ◽

Physical Layout

Abstract Superconducting gate-model quantum computer architectures provide an implementable model for practical quantum computations in the NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) technology era. Due to hardware restrictions and decoherence, generating the physical layout of the quantum circuits of a gate-model quantum computer is a challenge. Here, we define a method for layout generation with a decoherence dynamics estimation in superconducting gate-model quantum computers. We propose an algorithm for the optimal placement of the quantum computational blocks of gate-model quantum circuits. We study the effects of capacitance interference on the distribution of the Gaussian noise in the Josephson energy.

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