Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation

We developed a method to predict heavy rainfall in South Korea with a lead time of one to six hours. We modified the AWS data for the recent four years to perform efficient prediction, through normalizing them to numeric values between 0 and 1 and undersampling them by adjusting the sampling sizes o...

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Main Authors: Jae-Hyun Seo, Yong Hee Lee, Yong-Hyuk Kim
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/203545
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description We developed a method to predict heavy rainfall in South Korea with a lead time of one to six hours. We modified the AWS data for the recent four years to perform efficient prediction, through normalizing them to numeric values between 0 and 1 and undersampling them by adjusting the sampling sizes of no-heavy-rain to be equal to the size of heavy-rain. Evolutionary algorithms were used to select important features. Discriminant functions, such as support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN), and variant k-NN (k-VNN), were adopted in discriminant analysis. We divided our modified AWS data into three parts: the training set, ranging from 2007 to 2008, the validation set, 2009, and the test set, 2010. The validation set was used to select an important subset from input features. The main features selected were precipitation sensing and accumulated precipitation for 24 hours. In comparative SVM tests using evolutionary algorithms, the results showed that genetic algorithm was considerably superior to differential evolution. The equitable treatment score of SVM with polynomial kernel was the highest among our experiments on average. k-VNN outperformed k-NN, but it was dominated by SVM with polynomial kernel.
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spelling doaj-art-c4166f2be118494ca64511c46925481d2025-02-03T00:59:46ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172014-01-01201410.1155/2014/203545203545Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary ComputationJae-Hyun Seo0Yong Hee Lee1Yong-Hyuk Kim2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20 Kwangwoon-Ro, Nowon-Gu, Seoul 139-701, Republic of KoreaForecast Research Laboratory, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Korea Meteorological Administration, 45 Gisangcheong-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-720, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20 Kwangwoon-Ro, Nowon-Gu, Seoul 139-701, Republic of KoreaWe developed a method to predict heavy rainfall in South Korea with a lead time of one to six hours. We modified the AWS data for the recent four years to perform efficient prediction, through normalizing them to numeric values between 0 and 1 and undersampling them by adjusting the sampling sizes of no-heavy-rain to be equal to the size of heavy-rain. Evolutionary algorithms were used to select important features. Discriminant functions, such as support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN), and variant k-NN (k-VNN), were adopted in discriminant analysis. We divided our modified AWS data into three parts: the training set, ranging from 2007 to 2008, the validation set, 2009, and the test set, 2010. The validation set was used to select an important subset from input features. The main features selected were precipitation sensing and accumulated precipitation for 24 hours. In comparative SVM tests using evolutionary algorithms, the results showed that genetic algorithm was considerably superior to differential evolution. The equitable treatment score of SVM with polynomial kernel was the highest among our experiments on average. k-VNN outperformed k-NN, but it was dominated by SVM with polynomial kernel.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/203545
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title Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation
title_full Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation
title_fullStr Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation
title_full_unstemmed Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation
title_short Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation
title_sort feature selection for very short term heavy rainfall prediction using evolutionary computation
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/203545
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