Deposition of waxes, asphaltenes, scales or hydrates is one the most challenging operational problems in oil and gas industry, both during production transportation. Direct inspection procedures, such as employing a closed-circuit television system, allow visual assessment blockage, yet discretely time and, consequently, low value for purpose ensuring over time. Therefore, an indirect predictiv...

1InfoSci Inc., Menlo Park CA 94026–7117, U.S.A. 2Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487–0226, U.S.A. 3School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, NSW 2747, Australia 4Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, U.K. 5Institute of System Science, National Univers...