Paper Info
Title
Air quality assessment using a weighted Fuzzy Inference System.
Abstract
Air pollution is a current monitored problem in areas with high population density such as big cities. In this sense, environmental modelling should be accurate in order to generate better air quality evaluations; but in consequence they are complex. Nowadays, the artificial intelligence based on heuristic methods allows assessing air quality parametres, providing a partial solution to this problem. Accordingly, this paper proposes a new evaluation model using fuzzy inferences combined with an Analytic Hierarchy Process, providing a new air quality index. Environmental parametres (PM2.5, PM10, O3, CO, NO2 and SO2) are evaluated according to toxicological levels and then, a fuzzy reasoning process assesses different air quality situations. Additionally, individual weights are computed and assigned according to the pollutant importance on the air evaluation. Finally, the model proposed considers five score stages: excellent, good, regular, bad and dangerous, based on data from the Mexico City Atmospheric Monitoring System (SIMAT). Experimental results show a good performance of the proposed air quality index against those in literature, providing better assessments when weights are assigned according to an importance level in atmosphere pollution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.04.005
Ecological Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Air quality assessment,Artificial intelligence,Analytic Hierarchy Process,Fuzzy Inference System,Mexico City area
Data mining,Heuristic,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Pollution,Operations research,Pollutant,Air quality index,Air pollution,Analytic hierarchy process,Fuzzy inference system
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
33
1574-9541
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.11
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miguel Ángel Olvera-García1121.11
José Juan Carbajal Hernández2269.48
Luis P. Sánchez-Fernández3373.75
Ignacio Hernández-Bautista4122.12