Ant Colony Optimization for Design of Water Distribution Systems

By Holger R. Maier, Angus R. Simpson, Aaron C. Zecchin, W. Foong, Kuang Yeow Phang, Hsin Yeow Seah, C. Tan. 2003

499 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Ali Kaveh
2. Siamak Talatahari
3. Ali Torabi Haghighi
4. Z. Samani
5. Manuel López-Ibáñez
6. Ahmed El-Shafie
7. Anthony J. Jakeman
8. Sabah S. Fayaed

In Environmental Engineering

1. Ali Torabi Haghighi
2. Z. Samani
3. Ahmed El-Shafie
4. John P. Norton
5. Anthony J. Jakeman
6. Serena H. Chen
7. Othman Jaafar
8. H. Samani

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Aaron C. Zecchin
2. Angus R. Simpson
3. Feifei Zheng

Citations in the corpus

• GA-ILP Method for Optimization of Water Distribution Networks (2011, methodology): “Maier et al. (2003) employed the Ant Colony (AC) optimization method, Eusuff and Lansey (2003) utilized the Shuffled Frog Leaping (SFL) algorithm and Liong and Atiquzzaman (2004) used the Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) method.”
• Artificial Intelligence techniques: An introduction to their use for modelling environmental systems (2008, background): “ACO was originally developed for the travelling-salesman problem, and has become popular in engineering for optimal routing in telecommunication networks [42], of vehicles [44], water distribution systems [109,175], and stormwater networks [6].”
• Reservoir-system simulation and optimization techniques (2013, result): “More recently, (Maier et al. 2003) compared the performance of the ACO algorithm with that of GAs for the optimization of water distribution networks.”
• Ant Colony Optimization for Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Networks (2008, methodology): “Ant Colony Optimization has been applied by researchers to the design of Water Distribution Networks (Maier et al., 2003).”
• Partially constrained ant colony optimization algorithm for the solution of constrained optimization problems: Application to storm water network design (2007, unknown): “called visibility (Maier et al., 2003).”
• Particle-swarm harmony search for water network design (2009, unknown): “2003 , Geem 2006a , Perelman and Ostfeld 2007 , Lin et al .”
• A combined NLP‐differential evolution algorithm approach for the optimization of looped water distribution systems (2011, methodology): “[40] The best known solution for the NYTP case study is $38.64M rst found by Maier et al. [2003] with the ant colony optimization technique.”
• An improved ant colony optimization for constrained engineering design problems (2010, background): “), and have been applied to various discrete engineering problems in recent years such as water distribution system optimization ( Maier et al. , 2003”