The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a new observatory for very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA has ambitions science goals, for which it is necessary to achieve full-sky coverage, to improve the sensitivity by about an order of magnitude, to span about four decades of energy, from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV with enhanced angular and energy resolutions over existing VHE gamma-ray observatories. An international collaboration has formed with more than 1000 members from 27 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. In 2010 the CTA Consortium completed a Design Study and started a three-year Preparatory Phase which leads to production readiness of CTA in 2014. In this paper we introduce the science goals and the concept of CTA, and provide an overview of the project. ?? 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

The single-mirror small-size telescope (SST-1M) is one of the three proposed designs for the small-size telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project. The SST-1M will be equipped with a 4 m-diameter segmented reflector dish and an innovative fully digital camera based on silicon photo-multipliers. Since the SST subarray will consist of up to 70 telescopes, the challenge is not only to build telescopes with excellent performance, but also to design them so that their components can be commissioned, assembled and tested by industry. In this paper we review the basic steps that led to the design concepts for the SST-1M camera and the ongoing realization of the first prototype, with focus on the innovative solutions adopted for the photodetector plane and the readout and trigger parts of the camera. In addition, we report on results of laboratory measurements on real scale elements that validate the cama e-mail: matthieu.heller@cern.ch b e-mail: enrico.junior.schioppa@cern.ch c e-mail: alessio.porcelli@unige.ch era design and show that it is capable of matching the CTA requirements of operating up to high moonlight background conditions.

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Song and Chissom established fuzzy time series forecasting model in 1993. Stevenson and Porter improved the forecasting model of Jilani, Burney, and Ardil in 2009, and researched the forecasting problem of enrollments of the University of Alabama 1971-1992. Although they obtained the best prediction accuracy by 2009, the prediction accuracy was still not ideal. In this paper, we improved the forecasting model of Stevenson and Porter, and got the SFBODR (The Set of Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting Models Based on the Ordered Difference Rate). The forecasting model SFBODR(0.00004, 0.00003) can get the ideal state of AFER(Average Forecasting Error Rate) = 0% and MSE(Mean Square Error) = 0 in forecasting the enrollments of the University of Alabama. Keywords-fuzzy time series forecasting method; fuzzy number function of SFBODR; inverse fuzzy number function of SFBODR; forecasting function of SFBODR