… In this study, a community detection algorithm is used to find the best partition of a WDN.
The method uses modularity as the evaluation index of network partitioning. GN modularity (…

… water utilities to manage water distribution networks (WDNs). This study presents a novel
methodology that couples the improved hybrid community detection … water demand distribution …

… detection of water losses from water distribution networks, modern guidelines suggest a division
of the network … for each DMA allows for a quantification of water losses. In this paper, the …

… DMAs are then defined over the distribution network by means of a community detection 72
algorithm and a herein proposed community recursive merging process. Once the DMAs are …

… currently used by many water utilities, mainly in Europe and Latin America, to have better
control over water distribution systems; especially over non revenue water (NRW) related …

… Modern management guidelines suggest to divide the water distribution network in districts
(… to improve system knowledge, to realize the water balance of the area, and to locate water …

… for DMA design coupling a community detection method, many-objective optimization… water
network into a weighted and undirected graph and to use FNA for identifying the communities…

… Management of large water distribution systems can be improved by dividing their … the
problem of DMA design, social network community detection algorithms, grounded in graph theory…

… This paper proposes a formulation of modularity tailored to the dual water distribution
network (WDN) topology based on segments and valves, to be conveniently adopted for the …

… Water network partitioning (WNP) is an initiative technique to divide the original water distribution
network (WDN) into several sub-networks … quantification and detection of water leakage…