Author:Debba, Pravesh; Maina, J; Willemse, EDate:Nov 2010This paper reports on the results from ordinary least squares and ridge regression as statistical methods, and is compared to numerical optimization methods such as the stochastic method for global optimization, simulated annealing, particle ...Read more
Author:Letting, LK; Hamam, Y; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Aug 2017Demand estimation in a water distribution network provides crucial data for monitoring and controlling systems. Because of budgetary and physical constraints, there is a need to estimate water demand from a limited number of sensor measurements. ...Read more
Author:Olatinwo, DD; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Mar 2021This study proposes a hybrid MAC protocol that can efficiently and effectively optimize the communication channel access of a WBAN multi-class system. The proposed protocol consists of two major processes that include the contention phase ...Read more
Author:Oyeniyi, AA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, S; Alimi, KODate:Sep 2021The increasing integration of advanced information and communication tools in industrial control systems (ICS) has vastly increased the vulnerabilities and threats of intrusions into the various critical infrastructures which include the water ...Read more
Author:Brits, R; Engelbrecht, AP; Van den Bergh, FDate:2007Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique to locate and refine multiple ...Read more
Author:Van den Bergh, F; Engelbrecht, APDate:2006Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has shown to be an efficient, robust and simple optimization algorithm. Most of the PSO studies are empirical, with only a few theoretical analyses that concentrate on understanding particle trajectories. ...Read more