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International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries

ISCRAM-med 2017: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries pp 87–105Cite as

Hybrid Soft Computing Analytics of Cardiorespiratory Morbidity and Mortality Risk Due to Air Pollution

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During the last decades, climate change has been contributing significantly to the increase of Ozone and Particulate Matter in major urban centers. This might result in additional enhancement of serious seasonal respiratory and cardiovascular diseases incidents. This research effort introduces an innovative hybrid approach that fuzzifies the involved features. The final target is the development of a Mamdani fuzzy inference system with weighted fuzzy rules. The system’s output comprises of the partial meteorological and air pollution risk indices per season. Fuzzy conjunction T-Norms have been employed to estimate the unified risk index. Moreover, the effect of one to seven days delay regarding high values of the above indices to the morbidity and mortality indicators in the prefecture of Thessaloniki has been studied. Hybrid Fuzzy Chi Square Test has been performed to identify the degree of dependences between the unified air pollution-meteorological risk indices and serious health even mortality cardiorespiratory problems.

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  1. Department of Forestry & Management of the Environment & Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 193 Pandazidou Street, 68200 N, Orestiada, Greece

    Vardis-Dimitris Anezakis, Konstantinos Demertzis & Georgios Mallinis

  2. School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Kimmeria, 67100, Xanthi, Greece

    Lazaros Iliadis

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

    Ioannis M. Dokas

  2. Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique & Laboratoire RIADI, Université de la Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia

    Narjès Bellamine-Ben Saoud

  3. Laboratoire d’Informatique, Université de Grenoble, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France

    Julie Dugdale

  4. Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Anezakis, VD., Iliadis, L., Demertzis, K., Mallinis, G. (2017). Hybrid Soft Computing Analytics of Cardiorespiratory Morbidity and Mortality Risk Due to Air Pollution. In: Dokas, I., Bellamine-Ben Saoud, N., Dugdale, J., Díaz, P. (eds) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries. ISCRAM-med 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 301. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67633-3_8

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