在德克萨斯州阿灵顿市，已经安装了两个软件系统，用于配水系统的运行:一个集成数据库管理系统，旨在促进建模，另一个专家系统，旨在促进系统运行。数据库和专家系统都提供了一些有趣的可能性，尤其是需求和泵运行信息的交换。集成数据库系统的核心是一个关系数据库，它是其他系统组件（KYPIPE模型、AutoCAD图形、轮廓绘制程序和数据库管理器）之间的关键链接。第二个系统是专家系统，主要负责分析系统需求的实时数据，评估并推荐所有泵和存储设施的最有效运行模式。 专家系统将有关系统需求的信息反馈给数据库，用于网络建模。

In the City of Arlington, Texas, two software systems have been installed for use with the operation of the water distribution system: an integrated database management system designed to facilitate modeling and an expert system designed to facilitate system operations. Both the database and the expert system provide some intriguing possibilities, most notably the exchanging of demand and pump operation information. The core of the integrated database system is a relational database that serves as the key link between the other system components: the KYPIPE model, AutoCAD graphics, the contouring program, and the database manager. The second system, the expert system, has the primary responsibility to analyze real-time data on system demands and evaluate and recommend the most efficient mode of operation of all pumps and storage facilities. The expert system feeds information on system demands back to the database for use in network modeling.