@article{article_568917, title={OPTIMIZATION OF WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS USING ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM}, journal={Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={9}, pages={377–392}, year={2020}, DOI={10.28948/ngumuh.568917}, author={Yılmaz, Volkan and Büyükyıldız, Meral and Baykan, Ömer Kaan}, keywords={artificial bee colony algorithm,Hanoi network,alperovits and shamir network,Newyork city network,water distribution system}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">Water
distribution networks are such structures, which maintain the distribution of
the water necessary for use in the city-life to its users. Among the
facilities, which maintain the transmission of the utility water from its
resource to the users, water distribution networks are known to have quite high
ratio of cost to the overall cost. Certain limitations in the water
distribution networks, excessiveness of the parameters being in use in the
design, and the high amounts of cost being incurred, have altogether
necessitated the cost optimization in the water distribution networks. In this
study, cost optimization using the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization
method, which is a novel method, was performed on Alperovits and Shamir
network, Hanoi city water distribution network as well as New York city water
distribution network as a rehabilitation practice, which were previously used
by numerous researchers, and the results were evaluated. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Nigde Omer Halisdemir University}