Taormina, R.; Galelli, S.; Tippenhauer, N. O.; Salomons, E.; Ostfeld, A.; Eliades, D. G.; Aghashahi, M.; Sundararajan, R.; Pourahmadi, M.; Banks, M. K.; Brentan, Bruno M.; Campbell-Gonzalez, Enrique; Lima, G.; Manzi, D.; Ayala Cabrera, David; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Montalvo Arango, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)
[EN] The BATtle of the Attack Detection ALgorithms (BATADAL) is the most recent competition on planning and management of
water networks undertaken within the Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium. The goal of the ...
Ambrosio, J. K.; Brentan, B. M.; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Luvizotto, E.; Ribeiro, L.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Hindawi Limited, 2019-01-08)
[EN] Prediction models have become essential for the improvement of decision-making processes in public management and, particularly, for water supply utilities. Accurate estimation often needs to solve multimeasurement, ...
Brentan, B. M.; Meirelles, G.; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Luvizotto, E., Jr.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Hindawi Limited, 2017)
[EN] Operational and economic aspects of water distribution make water demand forecasting paramount for water distribution systems (WDSs) management. However, water demand introduces high levels of uncertainty in WDS ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto, Edevar, Jr.; Meirelles, Gustavo(John Wiley & Sons, 2022-04)
[EN] The design of district metered areas (DMA) in potable water supply systems is of paramount importance for water utilities to properly manage their systems. Concomitant to their main objective, namely, to deliver quality ...
Navarrete-López, Claudia Fernanda; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Brentan, B. M.; Luvizotto Jr., E.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(MDPI AG, 2019-02)
[EN] Epidemiology-based models have shown to have successful adaptations to deal with challenges coming from various areas of Engineering, such as those related to energy use or asset management. This paper deals with urban ...
[EN] Agent-based algorithms, based on the collective behavior of natural social groups, exploit innate swarm intelligence to produce metaheuristic methodologies to explore optimal solutions for diverse processes in systems ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Luvizotto, E.; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Pérez García, Rafael(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] The most important factor in planning and operating water distribution systems is satisfying consumer demand. This means continuously providing users with quality water in adequate volumes at reasonable pressure, thus ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Meirelles, G.; Luvizotto, E.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] With the advance of new technologies and emergence of the concept of the smart city, there has been a
dramatic increase in available information. Water distribution systems (WDSs) in which databases can be
updated ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Meirelles, G.; Luvizotto, E.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)
[EN] New environmental paradigms imposed by climate change and urbanization processes are leading cities to rethink urban management services. Propelled by technological development and the internet of things, an increasingly ...
Izquierdo-Pérez, Jorge; Brentan, Bruno M.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Clausen, Niels-Erik; Pegalajar-Jurado, Antonio; Ebsen, Nis(MDPI AG, 2020-02)
[EN] Offshore floating hybrid wind and wave energy is a young technology yet to be scaled up. A way to reduce the total costs of the energy production process in order to ensure competitiveness in the sustainable energy ...
Anchieta, Thomaz F. de F.; Santos, Saulo A. R.; Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2021-09-29)
[EN] The implementation of expansion projects of water networks supplying growing cities is deemed to be a complex decision-making problem involving both technical aspects and expert knowledge. Management and control ...
Carpitella, Silvia; Brentan, B. M.; Montalvo Arango, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Certa, A.(IWA Publishing, 2019-08-13)
[EN] This work presents a multi-criteria-based approach to automatically select specific non-dominated solutions from a Pareto front previously obtained using multi-objective optimization to find optimal solutions for pump ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Luvizotto, Edevar Jr.; Montalvo, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Pérez García, Rafael(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Management of existing systems can be interpreted as sets of decisions to make regarding pumps and valves to create hydraulic conditions able to satisfy the demand without operational problems such as pressures lower ...
Frances-Chust, Jorge; Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Montalvo, Idel(MDPI AG, 2020-02)
[EN] Nowadays, optimal sensor placement (OSP) for leakage detection in water distribution networks is a lively field of research, and a challenge for water utilities in terms of network control, management, and maintenance. ...
Manzi, D.; Brentan, B. M.; Meirelles, G.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto Jr., E.(MDPI AG, 2019-11)
[EN] A large volume of the water produced for public supply is lost in the systems between sources and consumers. An important-in many cases the greatest-fraction of these losses are physical losses, mainly related to leaks ...
[EN] Water supply systems (SAAPs) are critical infrastructures for the operation of any city; hence, that its proper management is an aspect to which particular attention must be paid. The sectorization of the SAAPs has ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Campbell-Gonzalez, Enrique; Goulart, T.; Manzi, D.; Meirelles, G.; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto, E.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)
[EN] Water supply utilities need to properly manage their systems to guarantee a quality supply. One way to manage large systems is through division into district metered areas (DMAs). Graph clustering with an unknown ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Campbell-Gonzalez, Enrique; Meirelles, Gustavo L.; Luvizotto, Edevar, Jr.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Hindawi Limited, 2017)
[EN] Management of large water distribution systems can be improved by dividing their networks into so-called district metered areas (DMAs). However, such divisions must be based on appropriated technical criteria. Considering ...
Meirelles, G.; Brentan, Bruno M.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Ramos, Helena M.; Luvizotto, E.(MDPI AG, 2018-06)
[EN] Water distribution networks (WDNs) are designed to meet water demand with minimum implementation costs. However, this approach leads to poor long-term results, since system resilience is also minimal, and this requires ...