Demand estimation of water resources via bat algorithm Online publication date: Thu, 30-Jan-2020
by Xiangdong Pei; Youqiang Sun; Yeqing Ren
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 18, No. 1, 2020
Abstract: In the process of urban water resources planning, the demand estimation of urban water consumption is one of the important basic contents. In this paper, a hybrid model of linear estimation model and an exponential estimation model are proposed to forecast the water consumption. The bionic intelligent algorithms are widely used in industrial engineering, so, we use intelligent algorithms to solve the proposed model including Bat Algorithm (BA) and modified Bat Algorithm (FTBA). FTBA improves the global search capability, and the improvements increase the probability of solving the optimal value. In the simulation experiments, we use the data from Nanchang city during 2003 to 2015. The data from 2003 to 2012 are used to find the optimal weights, and the remaining data (2013-2015) are used to test the models. Simulation results show that the modified BA (FTBA) is superior to the standard algorithm and achieves higher accuracy in prediction.
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