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In this paper, a modeling and simulation framework is presented for conducting the adequacy assessment of a wind-integrated power system accounting for the associated uncertainties. A multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP NN) is trained by the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) to forecast prediction intervals (PIs) of the wind power and load. The output of the adequacy assessment is given in terms of point-valued and interval-valued Expected Energy Not Supplied (EENS). Different scenarios of wind power and load levels are considered to explore the influence of uncertainty in wind and load predictions on the estimation of system adequacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Scale deposition can damage equipment in the oil & gas production industry. Hence, the reliable and accurate prediction of the scale deposition rate is critical for production availability. In this study, we consider the problem of predicting the scale deposition rate, providing an indication of the associated prediction uncertainty. We tackle the problem using an empirical modeling approach, based on experimental data. Specifically, we implement a multi-objective genetic algorithm (namely, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm–II (NSGA-II)) to train a neural network (NN) (i.e. to find its parameters, that is its weights and biases) to provide the prediction intervals (PIs) of the scale deposition rate. The PIs are optimized both in terms of accuracy (coverage probability) and dimension (width). We perform k-fold cross-validation to guide the choice of the NN structure (i.e. the number of hidden neurons). We use hypervolume indicator metric to evaluate the Pareto fronts in the validation step. A case study is considered, with regards to a set of experimental observations: the NSGA-II-trained neural network is shown capable of providing PIs with both high coverage and small width. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]