Objective
The management and operational control of water systems, from drinking-water distribution to the control of industrial waste water, is a complex problem, which is mostly site- and time-specific. Traditional methods experience difficulties dealing with these problems, due to the diversity of constraints imposed (physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, public management etc.). Typically, there is a lack of complete data. As a consequence, the need for new decision-making tools coping with these complex problems is great. These tools should be flexible, easily adaptable to specific user needs and able to present fast solutions in situations where there is incomplete and imprecise knowledge.
This project concerned Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), a newly emerging programming tool. Recently, CLP was successfully applied in PlaNets, which deals with operational problems in electric power-distribution networks. The similarity between power-distribution network and a water-distribution network was evident. The success of PlaNets proved that transferring this innovative technology of constraint modelling, to water-system management, offers great benefit. The success of PlaNets application lies in tight integration of constraints factors such as time, topology and electricity, yielding global solutions to a complex problem. Moreover, it proved that constraint-based computing can deal with imprecise knowledge and partial information in an efficient way.
The project was an interesting example of sector to sector transfer of technology. Some of the strong elements of the project includedL
- CLP software and hardware had been purchased and accepted by the end user and 3 end user engineers have been trained by the project.
- through dissemination new opportunities arose; for example contacts were initiated with various water utilities (e.g. KIWA - the association for Dutch drinking water companies) in Europe for a continuation of the project on a market-orientated basis.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics topology
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy planetary sciences planets
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Coordinator
08028 BARCELONA
Spain
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