Abstract The optimization of water networks supports the decision‐making process by identifying the optimal trade‐off between costs and performance (e.g., resilience and leakage). A major challenge in the domain of water distribution systems (WDSs) is the network (re)design. While the complex nature of WDS has already been explored with complex network analysis (CNA), literature is still lacking a CNA of optimal water networks. Based on a systematic CNA of Pareto‐optimal solutions of different WDSs, several graph characteristics are identified, and a newly developed CNA design approach for WDSs is proposed. The results show that obtained designs are comparable with results found by evolutionary optimization, but the CNA approach is applicable for large networks (e.g., 150,000 pipes) with a substantially reduced computational effort (runtime reduction up to 5 orders of magnitude).

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使用复杂网络分析优化配水网络

摘要 供水网络的优化通过确定成本和性能（例如弹性和泄漏）之间的最佳权衡来支持决策过程。配水系统 (WDS) 领域的一个主要挑战是网络（重新）设计。虽然已经通过复杂网络分析 (CNA) 探索了 WDS 的复杂性质，但文献仍然缺乏最佳水网络的 CNA。基于不同 WDS 的帕累托最优解的系统 CNA，确定了几个图形特征，并提出了一种新开发的 WDS 的 CNA 设计方法。结果表明，获得的设计与进化优化的结果具有可比性，但 CNA 方法适用于大型网络（例如，150，