A Machine Learning Approach for Data Unification and Its Application in Asset Performance Management

dc.contributor.authorHe, Binen
dc.contributor.committeechairFan, Weiguo Patricken
dc.contributor.committeememberCao, Yangen
dc.contributor.committeememberNorth, Christopher L.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-20T06:00:17Zen
dc.date.available2017-09-20T06:00:17Zen
dc.date.issued2016-03-28en
dc.description.abstractThe amount of data is growing fast with the advance of data capturing and management technologies. However, data from different source are often isolated and not ready to be analyzed together as one data set. The effort of connecting pieces of isolated data into a unified data set is time consuming and often costly in terms of cognitive load and programming time. To address this problem, here we proposed an approach using machine learning to augment human intelligence in the data unification process, especially complex categorical data value unification. Many aspects of useful information are extracted from supervised machine learning models, then used to amplify intelligence of human experts in various aspects of the data unification process. An empirical study is performed applying the proposed methodology to the field of Asset Performance Management, specifically focus only on the performance of equipment asset. The experiments show that machine learning helps experts in the unification standard generation, unified value suggestion, batch data unification. We conclude that machine learning models contain valuable information that can facilitate the data unification process.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:7170en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/79141en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMachine learningen
dc.subjectPredictive Modelingen
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligenceen
dc.subjectAsset Performance Managementen
dc.titleA Machine Learning Approach for Data Unification and Its Application in Asset Performance Managementen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science and Applicationsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
He_B_T_2016.pdf
Size:
2.43 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format

Collections