Evaluating the performances of several artificial intelligence methods in forecasting daily streamflow time series for sustainable water resources management

W Niu, Z Feng - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate runoff forecasting plays an important role in guaranteeing the sustainable
utilization and management of water resources. Artificial intelligence methods can provide …

A multi-objective cooperation search algorithm for cascade reservoirs operation optimization considering power generation and ecological flows

Z Feng, L Zhang, L Mo, Y Wang, W Niu - Applied Soft Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
With growing attention focused on energy generation and environmental conservation, the
operation of cascade reservoirs that considers power generation benefits and ecological …

Ecological operation of cascade hydropower reservoirs by elite-guide gravitational search algorithm with Lévy flight local search and mutation

Z Feng, S Liu, W Niu, S Li, H Wu, J Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is an evolutionary algorithm developed to solve the
global optimization problems, but still suffers from the premature convergence problem due …

Multi-strategy gravitational search algorithm for constrained global optimization in coordinative operation of multiple hydropower reservoirs and solar photovoltaic …

W Niu, Z Feng, S Liu - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, the solar photovoltaic power, a promising renewable energy, is witnessing a rapid
development period. However, it is often difficult to perfectly capture the generation of solar …

Cooperation search algorithm for power generation production operation optimization of cascade hydropower reservoirs

W Niu, Z Feng, Y Li, S Liu - Water Resources Management, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, the reservoirs operation plays an increasingly important role in
coping with the serious water, food and energy crisis. However, the curse of dimensionality …

Utilizing the Sobol'Sensitivity Analysis Method to Address the Multi-Objective Operation Model of Reservoirs

H Wang, Y Zhao, W Fu - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The operation of reservoirs has significantly influenced the river ecological system.
Upholding the ecological integrity of rivers during reservoir operations has been the focus of …

Specifying optimum water resources based on cost-benefit relationship for settlements by artificial immune systems: Case study of Rutba City, Iraq

M Eryiğit, SO Sulaiman - Water Supply, 2022 - iwaponline.com
The present study aims to specify optimum water resources depending on a cost-benefit
relationship for residential areas by heuristic optimization. For this purpose, a case study of …

Optimal management of multiple water resources by a heuristic optimization for a water supply in the desert cities of Western Iraq

M Eryiğit, SO Sulaiman, ABA Najm… - Desalination and Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, two different cost-benefit functions in the related literature were
compared to decide on optimum water resources for supplying the water of Rutba City …

Multi-objective operation of cascade hydropower reservoirs using TOPSIS and gravitational search algorithm with opposition learning and mutation

Z Feng, S Liu, W Niu, Z Jiang, B Luo, S Miao - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this research, a novel enhanced gravitational search algorithm (EGSA) is proposed to
resolve the multi-objective optimization model, considering the power generation of a …

Integrated design of dam size and operations via reinforcement learning

F Bertoni, M Giuliani, A Castelletti - Journal of Water Resources …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
In the water systems analysis literature and practice, planning (ie, dam sizing) and
management (ie, operation design) have been for long time addressed as two weakly …