Optimal control of wastewater treatment plants via integrated neural network and genetic algorithms

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-17

  Chang, Ni Bin ^a   Chen, W C ^a   Shieh, Wen K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Genetic algorithms; Neural network; Optimal control; Soft computing; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TAIWAN; WASTE WATER TREATMENT;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

INTEGRATED NEURAL NETWORKS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONTROL METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NEURAL NETWORK; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0035009142     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630250108970290     Document Type: Article

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