Abstract: The security of drinking water distribution operation is an important issue that has received increasing interest within the last few years. The U.S. EPA has issued guidelines for water utilities regarding which qualitative ...

Abstract: The control of networked multivehicle systems designed to perform complex coordinated tasks is currently an important and challenging field of research. This paper addresses a cooperative search ...

Abstract: A novel input-output model of water quality in water distribution systems is presented as a particle (water parcel) backtracking algorithm (PBA). The PBA is a simpler and more efficient version of that described by Zierolf ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for altering the area monitored by water quality sensors in water distribution systems (WDS) when there is suspicion of a contamination event. The proposed active contamination ...

Abstract: State estimation of hydraulics (i.e., pressure and flows) in water distribution networks is an important tool for efficient and resilient operation. However, hydraulic state estimation is a challenging task in practice ...

Abstract: A key challenge in designing algorithms for leakage detection and isolation in drinking water distribution systems is the performance evaluation and comparison between methodologies using benchmarks. For this purpose, the ...

Abstract: Booster disinfection is the addition of disinfectant at locations distributed throughout a water distribution system. Such a strategy can reduce the mass of disinfectant required to maintain a detectable residual at points ...