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WIVACE 2016: Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and Systems Chemistry pp 26–41Cite as

Complexity Science for Sustainable Smart Water Grids

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While the effects of climate change unfold and become more visible, infrastructures – especially those related to the distribution of water and energy – are the most exposed to the deep changes expected in the next years. Water is fundamental for people, and for infrastructures like energy, waste, and food production. Water sustainability is therefore a fundamental aspect to be addressed by an efficient use of the resources and by mainteining high quality standards. Hence, water industry and water infrastructure need a deep transformation; in this paper we present a framework based on complex systems and management science as a possible pathway to reshape and optimize the performance of the water infrastructure to cope with the complexity of todays’ challenges. To this aim, we propose the framework Acque 2.0 (Water 2.0), where we point out how the increase of the infrastructural resilience and of the overall quality of service can be attained by integrating models, algorithms and numerical methods like network simulations and big data analytics for the predictive maintenance of water networks. We discuss how Complexity Science is the natural glue allowing technical, management and social issues to be integrated in the holistic vision of the “water system” needed play to provide measures for an integrated sustainability reporting that involves utilities, regulators, policy makers, and citizens.

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    Directive2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32000L0060.

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  1. IMT-Alti Studi Lucca, Lucca, Italy

    Angelo Facchini, Antonio Scala & Guido Caldarelli

  2. CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Roma, Italy

    Angelo Facchini, Antonio Scala & Guido Caldarelli

  3. Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Nicola Lattanzi

  4. Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Liberatore

  5. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Lorenzo Dal Maso

  6. Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Caserta, Italy

    Armando Di Nardo

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Facchini, A. et al. (2017). Complexity Science for Sustainable Smart Water Grids. In: Rossi, F., Piotto, S., Concilio, S. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and Systems Chemistry. WIVACE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 708. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57711-1_3

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