Optimization Based Model Using Fuzzy and Other Statistical Techniques Towards Environmental Sustainability

Preface
Contents
Contributors
1 A New Fuzzy Weighted Multivariate Regression to Predict Water Quality Index at Perak Rivers
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 General Fuzzy Regression
		1.2.1 Method and Calculation
		1.2.2 Error calculation
	1.3 Data Collection
	1.4 Results and Discussion
		1.4.1 An Enhanced Fuzzy Multivariate Regression for WQI Data Sets
	1.5 An Enhanced Fuzzy Convex Combination for Improved Fuzzy Model
	1.6 Prediction of Water Quality Index
	1.7 Summary
	References
2 Smart Sensor Node of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for Remote River Water Pollution Monitoring System
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Sensor Node Design for Water Monitoring
	2.3 River Water Pollutant Monitoring System
		2.3.1 WSNs Sensing System
		2.3.2 WSNs Sink Node and Communication System
	2.4 Simulation Results and Discussion
	2.5 Conclusion
	References
3 Toward Formalization of Comprehensive Bilingual Dictionaries Creation Planning as Constraint Optimization Problem
	3.1 Closely Related Languages
	3.2 Bilingual Dictionary Creation
		3.2.1 Extraction from Comparable Corpora
		3.2.2 Pivot-Based Induction Approach
		3.2.3 Constraint-Based Induction Approach
		3.2.4 Cognates Recognition Approach
	3.3 Plan Optimization
		3.3.1 Motivating Scenario
		3.3.2 Formalizing Plan Optimization
	3.4 Conclusion
	References
4 Biomass Activated Carbon from Oil Palm Shell as Potential Material to Control Filtration Loss in Water-Based Drilling Fluid
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Drilling Fluid
	4.3 Formation Damages Influenced by Drilling Fluids
	4.4 Filtration Loss
	4.5 Activated Carbon from Oil Palm Shell
	4.6 Material and Method
	4.7 Result and Discussion
	4.8 Conclusion
	References
5 Experimental Study of PV/T Air Solar Collector and Generation of Fuzzy Membership Functions
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Experiments on the Performance of PV/T Solar Collector
		5.2.1 Data Collection
	5.3 Minimum Entropy Method
		5.3.1 Membership Functions Generation
		5.3.2 Fuzzification
	5.4 Results and Discussions
		5.4.1 Experimental Results
		5.4.2 Numerical Example
	5.5 Summary
	References
Index