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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2016, Article ID 7912357, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7912357
Research Article

Long-Term Precipitation Analysis and Estimation of Precipitation Concentration Index Using Three Support Vector Machine Methods

Milan Gocic,1 Shahaboddin Shamshirband,2 Zaidi Razak,2 Dalibor Petković,3 Sudheer Ch,4 and Slavisa Trajkovic1

1Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Nis, Serbia
2Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Department of Computer System and Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department for Mechatronics and Control, University of Nis, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Nis, Serbia
4Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India

Received 27 October 2015; Revised 20 December 2015; Accepted 4 January 2016

Academic Editor: Stefano Dietrich

Copyright © 2016 Milan Gocic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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