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1 Statistical analysis and definition of blockages-prediction formulae for the wastewater network of Oslo by evolutionary computing ABSTRACT KEYWORDS INTRODUCTION

2 PRESENTATION OF DATA AVAILABLE

3 Figure 1 BLOCKAGES VERSUS PIPES COHORTS Table 1

4

5 Figure 2

6 Table 2

7 Figure 3 FUNCTIONWISE AND DIMENSIOWISE COMPARISON OF BLOCKAGE RATES

8 Sewer Stormwater Combined year blockages λ [block/km.y] blockages λ [block/km.y] blockages λ [block/km.y] total Table 3 S M L year blockages λ [block/km] blockages λ [block/km] blockages λ [block/km] total Table 4 BLOCKAGES ANALYSIS WITH THE EVOLUTIONARY POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION (EPR)

9 = Basis Group CoD Model = = + = = + = =

10 = + = + = = = + = Table 5 = = α β γ δ ε = α β γ δ ε =

11 CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REFERENCES

α α λ α = = λ λ α ψ = = α α α λ λ ψ α = + β = > θ θ β > β β θ θ θ β θ β γ θ β = γ θ > β > γ θ β γ = θ β = θ β = θ β = β θ = β β θ = = = β β θ = + α α α α α = = λ λ λ λ λ λ λ = λ λ α α α α λ ψ + α =

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