Data-driven management for fuzzy sewage treatment processes using hybrid neural computing

With the growing public attention on sustainable development and green ecosystems, the efficient management of fuzzy sewage treatment processes (FSTPs) has been a major concern in academia. Characterized by strong abstraction and analysis abilities, data mining technologies provide a novel perspective to solve this problem. In recent years, data-driven management for FSTP has been widely investigated, resulting in a number of typical approaches. However, almost all existing technical approaches consider FSTP a unidirectional, sequential process, ignoring the bidirectional temporality caused by backflow operations. Therefore, we propose a data-driven management mechanism for FSTP based on hybrid neural computing (IM-HNC for short). This mechanism attempts to capture the bidirectional time-series features of FSTP with the aid of a bidirectional long short-term memory model, and further introduces a convolutional neural network to construct feature spaces with a stronger expression capability. Empirically, we implement a series of experiments on three datasets under different parameter settings to test the efficiency and robustness of the proposed IM-HNC. The experimental results manifest that the IM-HNC has an average performance improvement of approximately 5% compared to the baselines.