Development of an intelligent model to categorise residential water end use events

Journal of Hydro-Environment Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 182-201

  Nguyen, Khoi ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Stewart, Rodney Anthony ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic Time Warping algorithm; Hidden Markov Model; Residential water flow trace disaggregation; Water demand management; Water end use event; Water micro component

Indexed keywords

DISAGGREGATION; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING ALGORITHMS; WATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT; WATER END USE; WATER MICRO COMPONENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFER; FLOW OF WATER; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HYDRAULICS; PATTERN MATCHING; WATER METERS; WATER SUPPLY;

HOUSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER DEMAND; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84885387341     PISSN: 15706443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jher.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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