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@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Computing the average energy consumption per unit of time over the network
 lifetime would be better, as it is independent from the number and duration of
 rounds.  \\
 
-\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :}        }}
+\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :} Yes, you  are  right. It is possible to obtain the average energy consumption per unit of time by dividing the criterion defined in section .... by the round duration.}}
 
 
 
@@ -131,9 +131,10 @@ Alternatively, the authors may remove some versions of MuDiLCO if they do not
 bring any valuable insight. \\
 
 
-\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :}        }}
+\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :} Right. We have completely re-written section 5 to highlight the most significant results.       }}
 
 
+\bigskip
 \noindent {\bf 6.}   Page 19 (most major point)
 The authors state that solving the Mixed Integer Linear Program is
 time-consuming, and use this point for explaining why MuDiLCO-7 is not as
@@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ is very likely to save time and energy, and to improve the results of MuDiLCO-7
 in particular.  \\
 
 
-\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :}        }}
+\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer :}  Your  remark is very interesting. We have observed that the optimal solution of the integer program is often obtained after the exploration of very few nodes of the Branch-and-Bound-tree. Therefore we conducted new simulations by applying your idea. That is to say we have stopped the resolution of the Branch-and-Bound method after a time threshold empirically defined and we retain  the best feasible
+solution found by the solver. This approach allows to improve significantly the results with multirounds, especially for MuDiLCO-7.}}
 
 
 \bigskip
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ follows" should mention the content of Section 5.    }  \\
 The sentence "the centralized approaches usually suffer from the scalability
 problem, making them less competitive as the network size increase" should
 probably be tempered: heuristics and metaheuristics can handle very large and
-centralized problems (even if exact approaches can't), and these approaches are
+centralized problems (even if exact approaches can't), and these approaches areempirically
 very popular in WSN.     } \\
 
 \textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer:} Right, fixed    }}\\
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ very popular in WSN.     } \\
 study not presented here". The authors should provide at least one reference
 about the aforementioned study.      }  \\
 
-\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer:}          }}\\
+\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{\textsc{Answer:} Right. We have included a section (section ...) dedicated to the choice and the number of primary points.         }}\\
 
 \noindent {\ding{90}     Page 6, Figure 1:
 All rounds seem to have the same duration. This should be stated explicitly, and