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One of the classical data mining techniques is k-nearest neighbor. This method uses the class of the k nearest neighbor to classify a new instance. The distance is calculated with one of the multiple mathematical distance metrics. In this paper, the technique is used in the air quality forecast domain in order to predict the value of the air quality index. This index is used to categorize the p...

The so-calledAir Quality Index (AQI), expresses the quality of atmospheric air. The overall AQI is determined from the AQIs of some reference air pollutants, which are calculated by a transform of the respective concentrations. Concentrations of air pollutants are compositional data; they are expressed as part of mass of each pollutant in a total air volume or mass. Therefore, air pollution con...

† Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada. B3H 3J5 § Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138 ±Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA ÐAtmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD 20771, USA ¥University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. V6T 1Z3 ‡ Air Quality Processe...

BACKGROUND In the past few decades, Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) has become a primary concern to the point. It is increasingly believed to be of equal or greater importance to human health compared to ambient air. However, due to the lack of comprehensive indices for the integrated assessment of indoor air quality (IAQ), we aimed to develop a novel, Fuzzy-Based Indoor Air Quality Index (FIAQI) to...

Health impact assessment has become important in the development of air quality policies and in finding the relationships between pollutants concentration and health effects. In our work we presented a novel index able to evaluate the effects on the human exposure caused by ambient air pollution in urban areas. The index is able to link both health risk factors and pollutants levels. The indexe...