<i>Water Expert</i>: a conceptualized framework for development of a rule-based decision support system for distribution system decontamination

Gutenson, J. L.; Ernest, A. N. S.; Fattic, J. R.; Ormsbee, L. E.; Oubeidillah, A. A.; Zhang, X.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-8-9-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-8-9-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-8-9-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

Research article

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28 Aug 2015

Research article |

| 28 Aug 2015

Water Expert: a conceptualized framework for development of a rule-based decision support system for distribution system decontamination

J. L. Gutenson, A. N. S. Ernest, J. R. Fattic, L. E. Ormsbee, A. A. Oubeidillah, and X. Zhang

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RC C83: 'General and specific comments on paper dwes-2014-3', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Sep 2014
- AC C89: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Joseph Gutenson, 03 Jan 2015
RC C87: 'Review of the paper', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Dec 2014
- AC C91: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Joseph Gutenson, 03 Jan 2015

Short summary

Significant drinking water contamination events pose a serious threat to public and environmental health. This paper examines the development of Water Expert, a software tool for assisting decision makers in response and recovery following a contamination event. The decision making process undertaken during contamination events in evaluated. Results indicate that the decision making process is limited without technological intervention.