... pipeline accidents (e.g. leaks and cracks). In this stage, the flight path must be timely rescheduled to identify specific hazardous locations. Thus, the requirement for calculation time is higher than optimality and the genetic algorithm is used for solution to satisfy the timeliness of decision-making...

... This paper presents a hybrid approach, composed of a genetic algorithm and a linear programming method, to achieve an efficient pipeline network operation. The pipeline network optimization consists of the determination of pump scheduling over a short-term horizon, usually one or more days ahead...