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Detecting leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDN) using sensors has become crucial towards an efficient management of water resources. The leak detection methods that use this data rely on the correctness of the acquired data. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Krishnan Srinivasarengan , Taha Boukhobza , Samir Aberkane , Vincent Laurain

In this paper, we propose a data-driven leak localization method for water distribution networks (WDNs) which combines two complementary approaches: graph-based interpolation and dictionary classification. The former estimates the complete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Paul Irofti , Luis Romero-Ben , Florin Stoican , Vicenç Puig

Detecting and localizing leakages is a significant challenge for the efficient and sustainable management of water distribution networks (WDN). Leveraging the inherent graph structure of WDNs, recent approaches have used graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zepeng Zhang , Olga Fink

Water is a critical resource that must be managed efficiently. However, a substantial amount of water is lost each year due to leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs). This underscores the need for reliable and effective leak detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Daniele Ugo Leonzio , Paolo Bestagini , Marco Marcon , Stefano Tubaro

Detecting and localizing leaks in water distribution network systems is an important topic with direct environmental, economic, and social impact. Our paper is the first to explore the use of factor graph optimization techniques for leak…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Paul Irofti , Luis Romero-Ben , Florin Stoican , Vicenç Puig

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical systems for our society and detecting leakages is important for minimizing losses and water waste. This makes optimal sensor placement for leakage detection very relevant. Existing sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

The efficient computation of shortest paths in complex networks is essential to face new challenges related to critical infrastructures such as a near real-time monitoring and control and the management of big size systems. In particular,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-02 Carlo Giudicianni , Armando di Nardo , Gabriele Oliva , Antonio Scala , Manuel Herrera

Detecting leaks in water networks is a costly challenge. This article introduces a practical solution: the integration of optical network with water networks for efficient leak detection. Our approach uses a fiber-optic cable to measure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Huan Wu , Huan-Feng Duan , Wallace W. L. Lai , Kun Zhu , Xin Cheng , Hao Yin , Bin Zhou , Chun-Cheung Lai , Chao Lu , Xiaoli Ding

Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), critical to public well-being and economic stability, face challenges such as pipe blockages and background leakages, exacerbated by operational constraints such as data non-stationarity and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Stelios G. Vrachimis , Marios M. Polycarpou

Leakages are a major risk in water distribution networks as they cause water loss and increase contamination risks. Leakage detection is a difficult task due to the complex dynamics of water distribution networks. In particular, small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Valerie Vaquet , Fabian Hinder , Barbara Hammer

Timely leak detection in water distribution networks is critical for conserving resources and maintaining operational efficiency. Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing spatial-temporal dependencies in sensor data, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Qusai Khaled , Pasquale De Marinis , Moez Louati , David Ferras , Laura Genga , Uzay Kaymak

In this paper, we provide a mathematical optimization-based framework to determine the location of leak detection devices along a network. Assuming that the devices are endowed with a known coverage area, we analyze two different models.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Víctor Blanco , Miguel Martínez-Antón

Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructures that ensure safe drinking water. One of the major threats is the accidental or intentional injection of pollutants. Data collection remains challenging in underground WDNs and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhuangkun Wei , Alessio Pagani , Guangtao Fu , Ian Guymer , Wei Chen , Julie McCann , Weisi Guo

In the recent years, the scale of graph datasets has increased to such a degree that a single machine is not capable of efficiently processing large graphs. Thereby, efficient graph partitioning is necessary for those large graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Md Anwarul kaium Patwary , Saurabh Garg , Byeong Kang

This paper presents a novel methodology to automatically split a water distribution system (WDS) into self-adapting district metered areas (DMAs) of different size. Complex networks theory is used to propose a novel multiscale network…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-10 Carlo Giudicianni , Manuel Herrera , Armando di Nardo , Kemi Adeyeye

Optimal sensor placement is essential for state estimation and effective network monitoring. As known in the literature, this problem becomes particularly challenging in large-scale undirected or bidirected cyclic networks with parametric…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

The aim of this paper is to present how data collected from a water distribution network (WDN) can be used to reconstruct flow rate and flow direction all over the network to enhance knowledge and detection of unforeseen events. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-27 Christophe Dumora , David Auber , Jérémie Bigot , Vincent Couallier , Cyril Leclerc

Infrastructure monitoring is critical for safe operations and sustainability. Water distribution networks (WDNs) are large-scale networked critical systems with complex cascade dynamics which are difficult to predict. Ubiquitous monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Alessio Pagani , Zhuangkun Wei , Ricardo Silva , Weisi Guo

Safety-critical infrastructures, such as bridges, are periodically inspected to check for existing damage, such as fatigue cracks and corrosion, and to guarantee the safe use of the infrastructure. Visual inspection is the most frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Andrii Kompanets , Remco Duits , Davide Leonetti , Nicky van den Berg , H. H. , Snijder

Graph Partitioning is widely used in many real-world applications such as fraud detection and social network analysis, in order to enable the distributed graph computing on large graphs. However, existing works fail to balance the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Li Zeng , Haohan Huang , Binfan Zheng , Kang Yang , Shengcheng Shao , Jinhua Zhou , Jun Xie , Rongqian Zhao , Xin Chen
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