Optimizing SVM Model as Predicting Model for Sewer Pipes in the Two Main Cities in Colombia

Nathalie Hernández, Nicolas Caradot, Hauke Sonnenberg, Pascale Rouault, Andrés Torres

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Abstract

As in most of the cities around the world, in the last 30 years Latin-American ones have focused on investing in building infrastructure to provide sewer and water services to the communities. However, these infrastructures are going aging day to day. The municipalities need to extend management activities by the development of support tools such as deterioration models to face the aging problem. In the literature of sewer asset management, SVM has been a useful tool to predict and forecast the structural condition of pipes. In this work, the use of differential evolution method as optimization tool was implemented to find the optimal hyper-parameters for SVM models. The SVM models were applied in the main cities of Colombia (Bogota and Medellin) given as a result that the optimized SVM model provides less than 5% of deviation in the prediction of structural conditions in both cities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Trends in Urban Drainage Modelling - UDM 2018
EditorsGiorgio Mannina
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages926-931
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783319998664
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, UDM 2018 - Palermo, Italy
Duration: 23 Sep 201826 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameGreen Energy and Technology
ISSN (Print)1865-3529
ISSN (Electronic)1865-3537

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, UDM 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPalermo
Period23/09/1826/09/18

Keywords

  • Deviation analysis
  • Differential evolution method
  • Optimization
  • Sewer asset management
  • Support vector machines

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