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In water companies, decisions have to be made in order to guarantee the production workflow and supply the customers. Regarding water scarcity problems they have characteristics such as: they are complex situations and involve many participants of all society. Deciding how to manage the distribution of water in scarcity periods is by far a great challenge to managers in water companies. This study...
In water distribution networks, maintenance activities to insulate pipes with isolation valves are common. From that perspective, the ideal situation would be to have one valve on each pipe end in order to insulate each pipe without impacting the whole network. However, the allocation of valves has a high cost and pipes become weaker next to valves thus increasing the deterioration indexes. Therefore,...
Participatory democracy has been used in Brazil, and other countries in the world, as a form of social participation in the municipality's administration. In this sense, Participatory Budget (PB) is a government initiative to expand community participation in decision making on the public budget. However, the procedure normally used to survey the alternatives can lead to errors such as: (1) the alternative...
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