The sky view factor (SVF) is a geometric concept that refers to the ratio of the radiation received by a planar surface to the radiation emitted by the entire hemispheric environment. These ...

Matrix factorization techniques have become pivotal in data mining, enabling the extraction of latent structures from large-scale data matrices. These methods decompose complex datasets into ...

This chapter describes methods that have been used by many agencies for a long period of time to create temporal factor groups and assign counts to them based on easily identifiable characteristics.