Abstract:
AbstractComplex and/or large size water distribution networks (WDNs) require the division of the hydraulic system into modules to simplify the analysis and the management tasks. In the modern science of networks, the modularity index has been proposed to detect communities, i.e.,groups/clusters of nodes characterized by stronger interconnections. The modularity index is a measure of the strength of the network division into communities and it is maximized to identify them. Therefore, the division into modules of WDNs, also named segmentation, could be performed by using the modularity index as metric to identify cluster of nodes. Nevertheless, modularity index needs to be revised considering the specificity of the hydraulic systems, which are infrastructure networks. In fact, the division into modules for infrastructure networks, although it can be based on the identification of clusters of nodes, is not aimed at investigating network features. Differently, the aim is the practical issue of simplifying s...
