Identification of Annual Water Demand Patterns in the City of Naples

Autor: Roberta Padulano, Giuseppe Del Giudice, Maurizio Giugni, Nicola Fontana, Gianluca Sorgenti Degli Uberti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Proceedings, Vol 2, Iss 11, p 587 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-3900
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2110587
Popis: In the present paper, different clustering techniques were applied to detect significant patterns describing single-household water consumption in a residential neighborhood of the City of Naples, basing on hourly time series aggregated at the monthly scale. Comparisons among results were performed by means of a selection of Clustering Validity Indices, that were adjusted to overcome a bias caused by sparsely populated clusters. The most performant cluster solution proved to be the one resulting from the application of a mixed strategy, namely a Self-Organized Map followed by K-means performed on first level cluster centroids.
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