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Sustainable Air Quality Detection Using Sequential Forward Selection-Based ML Algorithms

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  • Nermeen Gamal Rezk

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El Sheikh 33516, Egypt)

  • Samah Alshathri

    (Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia)

  • Amged Sayed

    (Department of Electrical Energy Engineering, College of Engineering & Technology, Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport, Smart Village Campus, Giza 12577, Egypt
    Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menoufia 32952, Egypt)

  • Ezz El-Din Hemdan

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menoufia 32952, Egypt
    Structure and Materials Research Lab, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 12435, Saudi Arabia)

  • Heba El-Behery

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El Sheikh 33516, Egypt)

Abstract

Air pollution has exceeded the anticipated safety limit and addressing this issue is crucial for sustainability, particularly in countries with high pollution levels. So, monitoring and forecasting air quality is essential for sustainable urban development. Therefore, this paper presents multiclass classification using two feature selection techniques, namely Sequential Forward Selection (SFS) and filtering, both with different machine learning and ensemble techniques, to predict air quality and make sure that the most relevant features are included in datasets for air quality determination. The results of the considered framework reveal that the SFS technique provides superior performance compared to filter feature selection (FFS) with different ML methods, including the AdaBoost Classifier, the Extra Tree Classifier, Random Forest (RF), and the Bagging Classifier, for efficiently determining the Air Quality Index (AQI). These models’ performances are assessed using predetermined performance metrics. The AdaBoost Classifier model with FFS has the lowest accuracy, while the RF model with SFS achieves the highest accuracy, at 78.4% and 99.99%, respectively. Based on the raw dataset, it was noted that the F1-score, recall, and precision values of the RF model with SFS are 99.96%, 99.97%, and 99.98%, respectively. Therefore, the experimental results undoubtedly show the supremacy, reliability, and robustness of the proposed approach in determining the AQI effectively.

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  • Nermeen Gamal Rezk & Samah Alshathri & Amged Sayed & Ezz El-Din Hemdan & Heba El-Behery, 2024. "Sustainable Air Quality Detection Using Sequential Forward Selection-Based ML Algorithms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(24), pages 1-17, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:24:p:10835-:d:1541345
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