IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/hin/jnlmpe/947961.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

On the Complexities of the Design of Water Distribution Networks

Author

Listed:
  • Joaquín Izquierdo
  • Idel Montalvo
  • Rafael Pérez-García
  • Agustín Matías

Abstract

Water supply is one of the most recognizable and important public services contributing to quality of life. Water distribution networks (WDNs) are extremely complex assets. A number of complex tasks, such as design, planning, operation, maintenance, and management, are inherently associated with such networks. In this paper, we focus on the design of a WDN, which is a wide and open problem in hydraulic engineering. This problem is a large-scale combinatorial, nonlinear, nonconvex, multiobjective optimization problem, involving various types of decision variables and many complex implicit constraints. To handle this problem, we provide a synergetic association between swarm intelligence and multiagent systems where human interaction is also enabled. This results in a powerful collaborative system for finding solutions to such a complex hydraulic engineering problem. All the ingredients have been integrated into a software tool that has also been shown to efficiently solve problems from other engineering fields.

Suggested Citation

  • Joaquín Izquierdo & Idel Montalvo & Rafael Pérez-García & Agustín Matías, 2012. "On the Complexities of the Design of Water Distribution Networks," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2012, pages 1-25, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:947961
    DOI: 10.1155/2012/947961
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2012/947961.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2012/947961.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1155/2012/947961?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:947961. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mohamed Abdelhakeem (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.hindawi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.