Automated Creation of District Metered Area Boundaries in Water Distribution Systems
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 139, Issue 2
Abstract
Accounting for water in a distribution system can be improved by dividing systems into smaller, metered zones. This paper proposes an approach that could create boundaries for district metered areas (DMA) automatically on the basis of the community structure of water distribution systems. Community structure—the gathering of vertices into communities such that there is a higher density of edges within communities than between them—is a common property of many complex systems. For verification, the method was tested on a real-world distribution system, and the result was compared with a manually designed DMA layout. Although further improvements are necessary, because the achieved community structure is in excellent agreement with the zoning plan in reality, this approach is a new addition to the number of automated methods aimed at complementing and eventually substituting the empirical trial-and-error approach.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are very appreciative of Dr. Tom Walski and Dr. Walter Grayman for providing advice and the network data used in the case study. The authors also sincerely thank the reviewers for their guidance and constructive proposals.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 139 • Issue 2 • March 2013
Pages: 184 - 190
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 15, 2011
Accepted: Mar 30, 2012
Published online: Apr 3, 2012
Published in print: Mar 1, 2013
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