Authors:
Ostfeld, Avi and Uber, James G. and Salomons, Elad and Berry, Jonathan W. and Hart, William E. and Phillips, Cynthia A. and Watson, Jean-Paul and Dorini, G. and Jonkergouw, Philip and Kapelan, Zoran and di Pierro, Francesco and Khu, Soon-Thiam and Savic, Dragan and Eliades, Demetrios G. and Polycarpou, Marios M. and Ghimire, Santosh R. and Barkdoll, Brian D. and Gueli, Roberto and Huang, Jinhui J. and Huang, Jinhui Jeanne and McBean, Edward A. and James, William and Krause, Andreas and Leskovec, Jure and Isovitsch, Shannon L. and Xu, Jianhua and Guestrin, Carlos and VanBriesen, Jeanne M. and Small, Mitchell J. and Fischbeck, Paul S. and Preis, Ami and Propato, Marco and Piller, Olivier and Trachtman, Gary B. and Wu, Zheng Yi and Walski, Thomas M.
Abstract:
Following the events of September 11, 2001, in the United States, world public awareness for possible terrorist attacks on water supply systems has increased dramatically. Among the different threats for a water distribution system, the most difficult to address is a deliberate chemical or biological contaminant injection, due to both the uncertainty of the type of injected contaminant and its consequences, and the uncertainty of the time and location of the injection. An online contaminant monitoring system is considered as a major opportunity to protect against the impacts of a deliberate contaminant intrusion. However, although optimization models and solution algorithms have been developed for locating sensors, little is known about how these design algorithms compare to the efforts of human designers, and thus, the advantages they propose for practical design of sensor networks. To explore these issues, the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN) was undertaken as part of the 8th Annual Water Dist...
