This section of the CD-ROM contains additional material supporting the information in 

Chapter 12: 
A New Procedure to Generate Solar Radiation Time Series from Machine Learning Theory 

of the book:  
Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface.
Recent Advances

published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg

November 2007
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The software HAM supplied with this chapter allows us to estimate the described PFA. 

This software was developed by Juan Manuel Manzanares Bada, in the department of 
Lenguajes y Ciencias de la computacion of the University of Malaga (Manzanares, 2006). 

The CD has both the exe file to install the software (HAM.exe) and the folder Portada that contains the C++ and Matlab source files of the programme.

To install the software run the program Install HAM.exe. 

After the software is installed, the following directories are created in the PC:

The directory C:\Archivos de programa\Proyecto Fin Carrera\HAM\, where is the executable program HAM.exe 
The directory C:\HAM\ that contains some example of files.

An access to program is also created in Programs and also a shortcut access in created. 

The program HAM.exe calculates one PFA for one or more series of clearness index (daily or hourly). 

The input data (the hourly or daily clearness index series) must have the following format: each value of the index must be in one line and the file must be ended by the number -2222 (example TEMPORAL.TS 
in directory C:\HAM\PRUEBAS, once the program has been installed). 

It several series are used to estimate one PFA, all the series must be in the same file but each series have to be ended by -1111 and the file 
have to be ended by -2222 (example TEMPORALES.TS in directory C:\HAM\PRUEBAS). 

The extension for input data files is .ts.

To calculate one PFA, run HAM.exe, select Archivo->Abrir. 

In the dialog box, select the file that have the clearness index series. Once the file is loaded, click on 
Analisis temporal -> Automatas finites probabilistas. In the dialog box, it is necessary to specify the threshold (in the field Umbral) and the desired order (in the field Orden). 

Then, the name and directory of file output can be modified (field Nombre de fichero de salida). 

Finally, click on OK and the file is created in the directory that has been specified. 

This file contains not only the probability finite automata but also additional information about each state such as the number of sequences observed for each state and the absolute values of each transition (see for example the files TEMPORAL.MK and TEMPORALES.MK in C:\HAM\PRUEBAS.