Editing Hydroinformatics

{{Short description|Branch of informatics}}
'''Hydroinformatics''' is a branch of [[Information science|informatics]] which concentrates on the application of [[information technology|information and communications technologies]] (ICTs) in addressing the increasingly serious problems of the equitable and efficient use of [[water]] for many different purposes. Growing out of the earlier discipline of [[computational hydraulics]], the numerical [[simulation]] of water flows and related processes remains a mainstay of hydroinformatics, which encourages a focus not only on the technology but on its application in a social context.

On the technical side, in addition to [[computational hydraulics]], hydroinformatics has a strong interest in the use of techniques originating in the so-called [[artificial intelligence]] community, such as [[artificial neural networks]] or recently [[support vector machines]] and [[genetic programming]]. These might be used with large collections of observed data for the purpose of [[data mining]] for knowledge discovery, or with data generated from an existing, physically based model in order to generate a computationally efficient emulator of that model for some purpose.

Hydroinformatics recognises the inherently social nature of the problems of water management and of decision-making processes, and strives to understand the social processes by which technologies are brought into use. Since the problems of water management are most severe in the majority world, while the resources to obtain and develop technological solutions are concentrated in the hands of the minority, the need to examine these social processes are particularly acute.

Hydroinformatics draws on and integrates [[hydraulics]], [[hydrology]], [[environmental engineering]] and many other disciplines. It sees application at all points in the [[water cycle]] from atmosphere to ocean, and in artificial interventions in that cycle such as urban drainage and water supply systems. It provides support for decision making at all levels from governance and policy through management to operations.

Hydroinformatics has a growing world-wide community of researchers and practitioners, and postgraduate programmes in Hydroinformatics are offered by many leading institutions. The [[Journal of Hydroinformatics]] provides a specific outlet for Hydroinformatics research,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iwaponline.com/jh/toc.htm |title=IWA Publishing - Journal of Hydroinformatics<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2005-01-30 |archive-date=2015-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021063917/http://www.iwaponline.com/jh/toc.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the community gathers to exchange ideas at the biennial conferences. These activities are coordinated by the joint [[IAHR]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iahr.org/ |title=International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2017-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923032445/https://www.iahr.org/ |archive-date=2019-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[International Water Association|IWA]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iwa-network.org/ |title=IWA HomePage<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2017-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731083048/https://iwa-network.org/ |archive-date=2019-07-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[International Association of Hydrological Sciences|IAHS]]<ref>[http://iahs.info/ IAHS-AISH<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [http://www.iwahq.org/Home/Networks/Specialist_groups/List_of_groups/Hydroinformatics/ Hydroinformatics Section].

[https://shop.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-hydroinformatics/eslamian/978-0-12-821285-1 Classic Soft-Computing Techniques] is the first volume of the three, in the Handbook of HydroInformatics series ([[Elsevier]]) by [[Saeid Eslamian]].

Handbook of HydroInformatics, Volume II: [https://shop.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-hydroinformatics/eslamian/978-0-12-821961-4 Advanced Machine Learning Techniques] presents both the art of designing good learning algorithms, as well as the science of analyzing an algorithm's computational and statistical properties and performance guarantees

Handbook of HydroInformatics Volume III: [https://shop.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-hydroinformatics/eslamian/978-0-12-821962-1 Water Data Management Best Practices] presents the latest and most updated data processing techniques that are fundamental to Water Science and Engineering disciplines. 


==References==
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==External links==
*[https://hydroinformatics.byu.edu Hydroinformatics Lab at Brigham Young University]
*[https://hydroinformatics.uiowa.edu Hydroinformatics Lab at the University of Iowa - Research and Community Platform.]
*[https://www.un-ihe.org/msc-programmes/specialization/hydroinformatics-modelling-and-information-systems-water-management-2 IHE Delft MSc / PhD in Hydroinformatics.]
*[http://www.euroaquae.org/ EuroAquae - European master course of Hydroinformatics and Water Management.]
*[https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/degrees/hydroinformatics-water-management-euro-aquae-msc/#profile/ Hydroinformatics MSc at Newcastle University.]
*[https://www.cuahsi.org/ The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information System.]

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