Abstract: Reservoir management and operations are very complex activities in the field of water resources engineering. During the last two decades, a number of systems analysis techniques, particularly optimization and simulation, ...

Abstract: The paper describes the development of a computer model GANET that involves the application of an area of evolutionary computing, better known as genetic algorithms, to the problem of least-cost design of water distribution ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new methodology for the automated near-real-time detection of pipe bursts and other events that induce similar abnormal pressure/flow variations (e.g., unauthorized consumptions) at the district metered ...

Abstract: Extended-period simulation of incompressible and inertialess flow in water distribution systems is normally done using numerical integration techniques, although regression methods are also sometimes employed. A new method ...

Abstract: Sampling design (SD) for water distribution systems (WDS) is an important issue, previously addressed by various researchers and practitioners. Generally, SD has one of several purposes. The aim of the methodologies developed ...

Abstract: Estimating model parameters is a difficult, yet critical step in the use of water distribution system models. Most of the optimization-based approaches developed so far concentrate primarily on efficient and effective ways ...

Abstract: Nowadays, the unprecedented computing power of desktop personal computers and efficient computational methodologies such as the global gradient algorithm (GGA) make large water-distribution-system modeling feasible. However, ...

Abstract: Recent developments in flood modeling have led to the concept of coupled (sewer/surface) hydraulic models. In this paper two coupled models are examined; a one-dimensional (1D) sewer model coupled with a 1D surface network ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the application of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to the identification of the payoff characteristic between total cost and reliability of a water distribution system using the well-known ...

Abstract: Sampling design (SD) for water distribution systems (WDS) is undoubtedly an important issue, and has been addressed in the past by a number of scientists and practitioners. The aim of the SD methodology developed here is ...