Integrated approach for pipe failure prediction and condition scoring in water infrastructure systems

TM Rifaai, AA Abokifa, L Sela - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Pipe failures in water distribution infrastructure have significant economic, environmental,
and public health impacts. To alleviate these impacts, pipe deterioration modeling has been …

Prediction of water main failures with the spatial clustering of breaks

TYJ Chen, SD Guikema - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to limited budgets and an aging system, infrastructure managers have increasingly
sought cost-effective means to evaluate asset condition. This is a particular challenge for …

Integrating spatial clustering with predictive modeling of pipe failures in water distribution systems

AA Abokifa, L Sela - Urban Water Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pipe failures in water distribution infrastructure (WDI) have significant economic,
environmental and public health impacts. To alleviate these impacts, repair and replacement …

Towards resilient water supply in centralized control and decentralized execution mode

K Diao - AQUA—Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, 2021 - iwaponline.com
This paper shares a vision that sustainable water supply requires resilient water
infrastructures which are presumably in the centralized control and decentralized execution …

[PDF][PDF] Exploratory statistical analysis of spatial structures in urban datasets

R Westerholt - Metropolitan research: Methods and approaches, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Metropolitan phenomena are often characterised by spatial structuring and arrangement.
The term 'urban', understood as a “fabric in which […] sociocultural and politicaleconomic …

Why are You Here? Modeling Illicit Massage Business Location Characteristics with Machine Learning

A White, S Guikema, B Carr - Journal of Human Trafficking, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Illicit massage businesses are a venue for sex and labor trafficking in the United States.
Though many of their locations are made publicly available through online advertising, little …

Leveraging water utility customer reporting for resilient operations and management

HR Tiedmann, L Sela, KK Stephens… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water utilities collect information from various sources to gain continuous insights into the
state of drinking water systems. Among the available data types, service problems that …

[HTML][HTML] Geospatial Clustering in Smart City Resource Management: An Initial Step in the Optimisation of Complex Technical Supply Systems

AA Kapanski, RV Klyuev, AE Boltrushevich… - Smart Cities, 2025 - mdpi.com
Highlights What are the main findings? A method for clustering urban water supply
consumers based on their geographic location and water consumption levels has been …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian Optimization for Contamination Source Identification in Water Distribution Networks

K Alnajim, AA Abokifa - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, extensive research efforts have
been dedicated to the development of computational algorithms for identifying …

Fractality in water distribution networks: application to criticality analysis and optimal rehabilitation

K Diao, D Butler, B Ulanicki - Urban Water Journal, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Fractals have been identified as a common feature in many natural and artificial networks
that exhibit self-similarity of the topological patterns, ie different parts of the system have …