Decision Support Algorithm Based on the Concentrations of Air Pollutants Visualization

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

This article presents a decision 12 support algorithm for a project called “Environmental Sensing To Act for a Better Quality of Life: 13 Smart Health” (ESTABLISH). The main objective of the project is to ensure the transformation of raw environmental data collected by special sensors and requiring the interpretation of a specialist  into a form that can be easily understood by an ordinary user.

The paper is well written and technically sound, however following comments need to be address before recommending it for publication.

1 - the abstract part need to included some quanitative results

2 - The introduction part is too vague, it does not reflect the whole idea and background of the article.

3- a separate section indicating state of the art comparison should be included

4- Reference part need to be revised as well, for example following state of the art work is missing.

Shah, S.A., Fan, D., Ren, A. et al. Seizure episodes detection via smart medical sensing system. J Ambient Intell Human Comput (2018).

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thanks for your comments!

Point 1: The abstract part need to included some quantative results

Response 1:  Have not been changed. The point is that we do not have quantitative results: we have one pilot area in Romania where the data is constantly measured. Based on the measurements we have a new AQI hourly. This system transfers AQI to a particular classes of danger each of which has its own color and accompanying recommendation.

Point 2: The introduction part is too vague, it does not reflect the whole idea and background of the article.

Response 2 (page (P) 1, line (L) 27-37): The introduction was extended to specify in more detail the sense of the proposed solution and how it works.

Point 3: A separate section indicating state of the art comparison should be included

Point 4: Reference part need to be revised as well, for example following state of the art work is missing. Shah, S.A., Fan, D., Ren, A. et al. Seizure episodes detection via smart medical sensing system. J Ambient Intell Human Comput (2018).

Response 3-4 (P 2): An additional section (Section 2) named “Related work” was presented. The list of the references was revised in accordance.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Good, work, Please find attached my pdf file with some comments/suggestions than may help to improve the paper.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Point 1 (page (P) 1, line (L) 8-9): Has not been changed: the text is just highlighted, but not commented.

Point 2 (P1, L11-15): Has not been changed: the text is just highlighted, but not commented.

Point 3 (P1, L20): Has not been changed: the text is just highlighted, but not commented.

Point 4 (P1, L30-32): Has not been changed (Thank you for the comment!).

Point 5 (P2, L108): Reference 15 was deleted, the reference list was updated.

Point 6 (P2, L112): The reference on the official source with NowCast calculation was added, the reference list was updated.

Point 7 (P7, L227): Has not been changed (Thank you for the comment!).

Point 8 (P7, L252-253): Axes were added, the quality of the picture was improved. The explanation is quite a detail, in my point of view (I do not know what can be added here), however, it was extended a little bit to explain the parts of the dashboard.

Point 9 (P1, L268-270): Has not been changed: the text is just highlighted, but not commented.

Point 10 (P1, L272-273): The more detailed information about the benefits of using the proposed solution.

Point 11 (P1, L277-278): The paragraph with the plans was expanded with a more detailed description of what exactly needs to be done.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The authors have addressed all my comments, I would recommend it for publication in present form.

Author Response

Dear reviewer!

Thank you for taking the time to help us improve our article for publication!

Best Regards,

Ekaterina Svertoka