A short-term water demand forecasting model using multivariate long short-term memory with meteorological data

A Zanfei, BM Brentan, A Menapace… - Journal of …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Sustainable management of water resources is a key challenge nowadays and in the future.
Water distribution systems have to ensure fresh water for all users in an increasing demand …

[HTML][HTML] Explainable artificial intelligence for reliable water demand forecasting to increase trust in predictions

C Maußner, M Oberascher, A Autengruber, A Kahl… - Water Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The “EU Artificial Intelligence Act” sets a framework for the implementation of
artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe. As a legal assessment reveals, AI applications in water …

Automatic Completion of Underground Utility Topologies Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Y Su, J Wang, P Wu, C Wu, A Yue… - Journal of Computing in …, 2025 - ascelibrary.org
The absence of utility data, particularly about topological information, presents a significant
impediment to the efficient management of underground utilities. Previous studies …

A hybrid approach combining the multi-dimensional time series k-means algorithm and long short-term memory networks to predict the monthly water demand …

A Niknam, HK Zare, H Hosseininasab… - Earth Science …, 2023 - Springer
An authentic water consumption forecast is an auxiliary tool to support the management of
the water supply and demand in urban areas. Providing a highly accurate forecasting model …

[HTML][HTML] Graph neural networks for sensor placement: A proof of concept towards a digital twin of water distribution systems

A Menapace, A Zanfei, M Herrera, B Brentan - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban water management faces new challenges due to the rise of digital solutions and
abundant data, leading to the development of data-centric tools for decision-making in …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of Missing Data Imputation on Resilience Evaluation for Water Distribution System

AB Ghimire, BA Magar, U Parajuli, S Shin - Urban Science, 2024 - mdpi.com
Resilience-based decision-making for urban water distribution systems (WDSs) is a
challenge when WDS sensing data contain incomplete or missing values. This study …

Using digitalisation for a real-word implementation of an early warning system for water leakages

M Oberascher, C Maussner, P Hinteregger… - Water Practice & …, 2025 - iwaponline.com
ABSTRACT A timely detection and localisation of leakages is of highest interest to reduce
water losses. As stated in the literature, most leakage detection and localisation methods …

AI-Forecast: an innovative and practical tool for short-term water demand forecasting

A Zanfei, A Lombardi, A De Luca, A Menapace - Water Supply, 2024 - iwaponline.com
Water management is a major contemporary and future challenge. In an increasing water
demand scenario related to climate change, a water distribution system must ensure equal …

Exploring the feasibility of Support Vector Machine for short-term hydrological forecasting in South Tyrol: challenges and prospects

D Dalla Torre, A Lombardi, A Menapace… - Discover Applied …, 2024 - Springer
Short-term hydrological forecasting is crucial for suitable multipurpose water resource
management involving water uses, hydrological security, and renewable production. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Cascade Machine Learning Approach Applied to Short-Term Medium Horizon Demand Forecasting

B Brentan, A Zanfei, M Oberascher, R Sitzenfrei… - Engineering …, 2024 - mdpi.com
This work proposes a cascade model incorporating Long–Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and
Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), which offers a more reliable model to forecast short-term …