Department of Civil &Environmental Engineering  University of Adelaide Australia

Fach Informatik Mathematisch-Geographische Fakultät Katholische Universität Eichstätt Germany

EMWADIS - Evolutionary Methods for
Water Distribution System Design
 
The design of water distribution and transmission systems has to deal with several complex optimization problems. Evolutionary search techniques like Genetic Algorithms have been applied recently to problems in this field. The results are encouraging and show that evolutionary methods can find robust solutions even in cases when problem parameters can not be determined exactly.

Aim of the EMWADIS project is to develope methods for solving water supply problems that are based on new evolutionary approaches involving populations of software agents. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is one such novel optimization approach. It is inspired by the food searching behaviour of ants. ACO has been applied succesfully to solve several combinatorial optimization problems, e.g. traveling salesperson and the quadratic assignment problems.

Events:

Eichstätt: WS 1999/2000

Seminar "Angewandte Informatik": Talks on topics concerning the EMWADIS project are offered for interested students. It is possible to do practical work during this course.
First Meeting: 10.11.99, 10.00 Uhr, KG I/ Bau B 102.

Adelaide:

It is planned to offer a final year project starting in March 2000.

Adelaide+Eichstätt:

It is planned to offer interested students project/seminar work that can be done in collaboration between Adelaide and Eichstätt. Details will follow.