State of the Art Review of Ant Colony Optimization Applications in Water Resource Management

Abbas Afshar (), Fariborz Massoumi (), Amin Afshar () and Miquel Mariño ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2015, vol. 29, issue 11, 3904 pages

Abstract: Among the emerged metaheuristic optimization techniques, ant colony optimization (ACO) has received considerable attentions in water resources and environmental planning and management during last decade. Different versions of ACO have proved to be flexible and powerful in solving number of spatially and temporally complex water resources problems in discrete and continuous domains with single and/or multiple objectives. Reviewing large number of peer reviewed journal papers and few valuable conference papers, we intend to touch the characteristics of ant algorithms and critically review their state-of- the-art applications in water resources and environmental management problems, both in discrete and continuous domains. The paper seeks to promote Opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of the algorithm as applied to different areas of water resources problems both in research and practice. It also intends to identify and present the major and seminal contributions of ant algorithms and their findings in organized areas of reservoir operation and surface water management , water distribution systems, urban drainage and sewer systems, groundwater managements, environmental and watershed management. Current trends and challenges in ACO algorithms are discussed and called for increased attempts to carry out convergence analysis as an active area of interest. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Ant colony optimization; Review; Water resources; Water management; Algorithm; ACO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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