Water Distribution System Computer-Aided Design by Agent Swarm Optimization

Optimal design of water distribution systems (WDS), including the sizing of components, quality control, reliability, renewal and rehabilitation strategies, etc., is a complex problem in water engineering that requires robust methods of optimization. Classical methods of optimization are not well suited for analyzing highly-dimensional, multimodal, non-linear problems, especially given inaccurate, noisy, discrete and complex data. Agent Swarm Optimization (ASO) is a novel paradigm that exploits swarm intelligence and borrows some ideas from multiagent based systems. It is aimed at supporting decisionmaking processes by solving multi-objective optimization problems. ASO offers robustness through a framework where various population-based algorithms co-exist. The ASO framework is described and used to solve the optimal design of WDS. 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