Innovative Approaches in the Optimization of Water Distribution Networks
This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of optimization approaches to deal with water distribution systems (WDS) planning and management problems has a long history. However, the multiple challenges presented by such complex problems in modern societies, where there are great expectations about the performance of WDS in a context characterized by new drivers of change, opens up many novel avenues for research in this field.
Optimization approaches are perceived today as essential in helping decision makers to be better informed. They provide guidance for the efficient allocation of substantial investment in the design, construction, operation, maintenance, rehabilitation, and monitoring of sustainable WDS.
In line with these ideas, the purpose of this Special Issue is to assemble papers that present new research findings likely to contribute to the planning and management of WDS, using cutting-edge optimization techniques and creating a bridge between science and engineering applications.
Prof. Maria da Conceição Cunha
Prof. Angus Ross Simpson
Prof. Dimitri P. Solomatine
Prof. Gianfranco Becciu
Dr. Olivier Alain Piller
Dr. Raziyeh Farmani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Adapting WDS to future states of the world
- Flexible approaches to the design of new WDS
- Water and energy nexus for WDS management in smart cities
- Management of intermittent water supply
- Safety and security strategies and models
- Multi-purpose sectorisation and sensor placements for WDS management
- Management of reliability, resilience, vulnerability of WDS
- IoT and WDS management
- Big data and analytic challenges for the design and management of WDS
- Optimization algorithms for dealing with large networks
- Scaling-up optimization techniques
- Multi-objective optimization of WDS
- Many-objective challenges in WDS
- Multi-criteria decision analysis and the integration of stakeholders’ perspectives
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Published Papers
Water - ISSN 2073-4441