(1) Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;(2) Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Planning Center, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156 Isfahan, Iran
Abstract:
This paper is devoted to the problem of improving network performance to withstand incidents such as earthquakes, which have long-term adverse-effect upon the networks. A measure of link importance is presented based on consumers surplus. This measure is then used to define and solve a network improvement problem. Computational complexities are reduced by introducing an approximate measure of link importance which performs almost as good, and hence may be used for solving large scale problems. Several example networks are used to clarify the discussion numerically.