Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm

The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Meteorological Malaysia Department (MMD) have identified that water level is one of the important indicators for flooding control. The aim of this study is to find the best regression model and to identify the dominant variables of water level in D...

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spelling my-utm-ep.506902020-07-08T04:17:25Z Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm 2014-09 Arbain, Siti Hajar QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Meteorological Malaysia Department (MMD) have identified that water level is one of the important indicators for flooding control. The aim of this study is to find the best regression model and to identify the dominant variables of water level in Dungun River. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA),Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA), Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Model (NARX) are popular methods in time series forecasting. However, ARIMA and SARIMA produce linear models where the approximations of linear models for the complex real-world problems are not always satisfactory. Thus, Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Model (NARX) can be implemented in the time series forescasting due to its nonlinear modelling capability. These four methods, however, cannot be used directly for water level prediction since the original data from DID and MMD contain missing data. In this thesis, two methods are employed to treat missing data which are pre-processing using Mean and preprocessing using Ordinary Linear Regression (OLR) substitutions. In addition, BPNN and NARX may be difficult to determine the optimal network architecture and weights design since the optimal weight are different in each learning process. Thus, it is difficult to get best model in prediction. Based on the limitation of BPNN and NARX, the hybridization of Single BPPN and Genetic Algorithms (S-BPNN-GA) and Multi BPNN and Genetic Algorithms (M-BPNN-GA) have been proposed in this study. Experiments indicate hybridization of M-BPNN-GA 5-6-1 using five predictor variables including monthly, rainfall, temperature, evaporation and humidity and give better results compared to the other methods. 2014-09 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50690/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50690/25/SitiHajarArbainMFC2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:92578 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
Arbain, Siti Hajar
Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
description The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Meteorological Malaysia Department (MMD) have identified that water level is one of the important indicators for flooding control. The aim of this study is to find the best regression model and to identify the dominant variables of water level in Dungun River. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA),Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA), Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Model (NARX) are popular methods in time series forecasting. However, ARIMA and SARIMA produce linear models where the approximations of linear models for the complex real-world problems are not always satisfactory. Thus, Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Model (NARX) can be implemented in the time series forescasting due to its nonlinear modelling capability. These four methods, however, cannot be used directly for water level prediction since the original data from DID and MMD contain missing data. In this thesis, two methods are employed to treat missing data which are pre-processing using Mean and preprocessing using Ordinary Linear Regression (OLR) substitutions. In addition, BPNN and NARX may be difficult to determine the optimal network architecture and weights design since the optimal weight are different in each learning process. Thus, it is difficult to get best model in prediction. Based on the limitation of BPNN and NARX, the hybridization of Single BPPN and Genetic Algorithms (S-BPNN-GA) and Multi BPNN and Genetic Algorithms (M-BPNN-GA) have been proposed in this study. Experiments indicate hybridization of M-BPNN-GA 5-6-1 using five predictor variables including monthly, rainfall, temperature, evaporation and humidity and give better results compared to the other methods.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Arbain, Siti Hajar
author_facet Arbain, Siti Hajar
author_sort Arbain, Siti Hajar
title Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
title_short Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
title_full Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
title_fullStr Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
title_full_unstemmed Non-linear water level forecasting of Dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
title_sort non-linear water level forecasting of dungun river using hybridization of backpropagation neural network and genetic algorithm
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50690/25/SitiHajarArbainMFC2014.pdf
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