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Due to this, it is still an open problem to find a compromise between these two parameters. In this study, the problem of optimal sensor placement was investigated for a composite plate with simulated internal damage. To solve this problem, different sensor placement methods with different constraint variants were applied. The advantage of the proposed approach is that information for sensor placement was used only from the structure\u2019s healthy state. The results of the calculations according to sensor placement methods were subsets of possible sensor network candidates, which were evaluated using the aggregation of different metrics. The evaluation of selected sensor networks was performed and validated using machine learning techniques and visualized appropriately. 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