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Trabajo presentado a la 3rd Conference on Control and Fault Tolerant Systems, celebrada en Barcelona (España) del 7 al 9 de septiembre de 2016. ; This paper presents an optimal sensor placement strategy based on pressure sensitivity matrix analysis and a semi-exhaustive search strategy that maximizes some diagnosis specifications for water distribution networks. A mean average worst leak expansion distance has been proposed as a new leak location performance measure. The approach is combined with a clustering technique in order to reduce the size and the complexity of the sensor placement problem. The strategy is successfully applied to determine the location of a set of pressure sensors in a district metered area (DMA) in the Barcelona water distribution network (WDN). ; This work has been funded by the Spanish Government (MINECO) through the project CICYT ECOCIS (ref. DPI2013-48243-C2-1-R), by MINECO and FEDER through the project CICYT HARCRICS (ref. DPI2014-58104-R), by MINECO through the grant IJCI-2014-2081, by the DGR of Generalitat de Catalunya (SAC group Ref. 2014/SGR/374), by the AGAUR of Generalitat de Catalunya through the grant 2014PDJ00102 and by EFFINET grant FP7-ICT-2012-318556 of the European Commission. ; Peer Reviewed

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