PLAYFUL DESIGN IN COMPUTING SCIENCE STUDY

Noor Dina Wahid Faculty of Computer and Mathematic Science, MARA University of Technology Email: dyna_purra@yahoo.co.uk ABSTRACT Planning, designing and operation of any water resources projects such as dams, spillways, road and railway bridges, culverts, urban drainage systems, flood plain zoning and economic evaluation of flood protection projects are based on estimation of design flood. The reasonable estimation of flood is the main problematic issues where hydrological data and information are limited. The first step in flood study is hydrologically homogeneity testing. The regionalization of watersheds is important because unless a region is homogeneous in its hydrologic response, reliable equations relating the flood discharge to the physiographic and precipitation characteristics of that region cannot be developed. Several procedures have been developed to determine homogeneous areas such as geographical approach, seasonality, cluster method, fuzzy c-means and Kohonen neural network. The present study deals with the application of cluster analysis, Fuzzy Cluster Analysis (FCA) and Kohonen Artificial Neural Networks (KANN) methods for classification of 70 hygrometry stations in north of Iran into homogeneous groups. Parameters, namely latitude, longitude, annual rainfall, area, perimeter, elevation, mean slope, length and slope of main river, time of concentration, form factor, Gravelious coefficient, length and width of longest route, circularity ratio and compactness factor were studied. In order to select the most important factors in terms of hydrological homogeneity, these parameters were analyzed and reduced by factor analysis, method of PCA and 4 parameters of perimeter, maximum elevation, width and Gravelious factor were selected. These parameters were used as input in classification methods i.e. K-Means Cluster, Hierarchical Cluster, Fuzzy C-means and Kohonen neural network. The results then were compared and homogeneous catchments determined. Keywords: Playful design;Computer Science;