This paper presents an extended version of Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation (PPIC) called Variance reduced Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation (VRPPIC) for multicarrier code division multiple access uplink systems. The combination of PPIC receiver and new bit estimator is called VRPPIC detector. This realization is derived for the main PPIC operation and soft decision (SD) from...

This paper presents the multi-criteria calibration of a regional distributed subsurface water flow model for a 1400 km irrigated agricultural area in the western San Joaquin Valley of California. Two global optimization algorithms were used to identify model parameters using data on spatially distributed local water table depth measurements, district-average groundwater pumping and district-ave...

A new hybrid clustering algorithm based on a three-layer feed forward neural network (FFNN), a distribution density function, and a cluster validity index, is presented in this paper. In this algorithm, both feature weighting and sample weighting are considered, and an optimal cluster number is automatically determined by the cluster validity index. Feature weights are learnt via FFNN based on ...

An inverse analysis model was developed which provides a mathematical framework for interpretation, in terms of the condition of a buried pipeline, of survey data in the presence of random noise. A boundary-element forward model was coupled with a weighted nonlinear regression algorithm to obtain pipe surface properties from two types of survey data: soil-surface potentials and local values of ...

A limited diffraction beams ~LDB! imaging system with Chebyshev weighting is presented. The objective of the paper is to reduce the sidelobes of the LDB without impacting on main-lobe performance and increase the contrast-resolution of the imaging system. The Chebyshev weighting is applied to the LDB and an analytic description and the simulation results are obtained. Theoretical analysis and s...