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The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology that makes it possible to take advantage of power transformer operators' knowledge in order to reach a better control of process of preventive maintenance (PM). The main idea is to construct probabilistic models using a Bayesian approach along with an age reduction model in order to compensate for both the lack of failure data on the maintained system...
Labeled examples are often expensive and time-consuming to obtain. One practically important problem is: can the labeled data from other related sources help predict the target task, even if they have (a) different feature spaces (e.g., image vs. text data), (b) different data distributions, and (c) different output spaces? This paper proposes a solution and discusses the conditions where this is...
Computing Bayesian statistics with traditional techniques is extremely slow, specially when large data has to be exported from a relational DBMS. We propose algorithms for large scale processing of stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) for linear regression that can work entirely inside a DBMS. The traditional SSVS algorithm requires multiple scans of the input data in order to compute a regression...
This paper introduces a simple yet powerful data transformation strategy for kernel machines. Instead of adapting the parameters of the kernel function w.r.t. the given data (as in conventional methods), we adjust both the kernel hyper-parameters and the given data itself. Using this approach, the input data is transformed to be more representative of the assumptions encoded in the kernel function...
Most well-known discriminative clustering models, such as spectral clustering (SC) and maximum margin clustering (MMC), are non-Bayesian. Moreover, they merely considered to embed domain-dependent prior knowledge into data-specific kernels, while other forms of prior knowledge were seldom considered in these models. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian maximum margin clustering model (BMMC) based...
One of the key challenges facing the professional services delivery business is the issue of optimally balancing competing demands from multiple, concurrent engagements on a limited supply of skill resources. In this paper, we present a framework for combining causal Bayesian analysis and optimization to address this challenge. Our framework integrates the identification and modeling of the impact...
Sparsity is crucial for high-dimensional statistical modeling. On one hand, dimensionality reduction can reduce the variability of estimation and thus provide reliable predictive power. On the other hand, the selected sub-model can discover and emphasize the underlying dependencies, which is useful for objective interpretation. Many variable selection methods have been proposed in literatures. For...
Currently considerable attention has been given to the effect of data correlation on statistical process control (SPC). Use of traditional SPC methods when observations are correlated often leads to misleading conclusions as to whether or not the process is under control. The objective of this paper is to develop an algorithm to adjust a Dynamic Linear Model, to calculate the run length distribution...
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