I am frequently asked to visit offshore production platforms to sort out problems with the oil export or the produced water quality where the ultimate issue is not poor control in the export or water-handling systems but due to over-aggressive level control at the reception end of the process. One of the tools available to decouple the front and back ends of the production train is error square...

Recently, a new pattern classiier using neighborhood information in the framework of the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence was introduced 3, 2]. This approach consists in considering each neighbor of a pattern to be classiied as an item of evidence supporting certain hypotheses concerning the class membership of that pattern. In this paper, an adaptive version of this method is proposed, in wh...