Towards a model of input-output behaviour of wastewater treatment plants using soft computing techniques

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 409-419

  Belanche, Lluís A ^a   Valdés, Julio J ^a   Comas, Joaquim ^b   Roda, Ignasi R ^b   Poch, Manel ^b  

^a Seccio d'Intelligencia Artif   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental modeling; Heterogeneous neural networks; System identification; Wastewater treatment plants

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FUZZY SETS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL;

FUZZY HETEROGENEOUS TIME DELAY NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0032961142     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(98)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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