Application of Data Mining and Analysis Techniques for Renewable Energy Network Design and Optimization

Discover the next generation of data-mining tools and technologyThis book brings together an international team of eighty experts to present readers with the next generation of data-mining applications. Unlike other publications that take a strictly academic and theoretical approach, this book features authors who have successfully developed data-mining solutions for a variety of customer types. Presenting their state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques, the authors show readers how they can analyze enormous quantities of data and make new discoveries by connecting key pieces of data that may be spread across several different databases and file servers. The latest data-mining techniques that will revolutionize research across a wide variety of fields including business, science, healthcare, and industry are all presented. Organized by application, the twenty-five chapters cover applications in:. Industry and business . Science and engineering . Bioinformatics and biotechnology . Medicine and pharmaceuticals. Web and text-mining . Security. New trends in data-mining technology. And much more . . .Readers from a variety of disciplines will learn how the next generation of data-mining applications can radically enhance their ability to analyze data and open the doors to new opportunities. Readers will discover:. New data-mining tools to automate the evaluation and qualification of sales opportunities. The latest tools needed for gene mapping and proteomic data analysis. Sophisticated techniques that can be engaged in crime fighting and preventionWith its coverage of the most advanced applications, Next Generation of Data-Mining Applications is essential reading for all researchers working in data mining or who are tasked with making sense of an ever-growing quantity of data. The publication also serves as an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, information management, and statistics

Clustering technique is critically important step in data mining process. Clustering is a significant task in data analysis and data mining applications. It is the task of arrangement a set of objects so that objects in the identical group are more related to each other than to those in other groups (clusters). Data mining can do by passing through various phases. Mining can be done by using supervised and unsupervised learning. The clustering is unsupervised learning. A good clustering method will produce high superiority clusters with high intra-class similarity and low inter-class similarity. Its main distinctiveness is the fastest processing time. In this paper, an analysis of clustering and its different techniques in data mining is done. Results were quite encouraging and had shown high accuracy.

Objectives: The nonlinearity of the stock market is widely accepted all over the world and to reveal such non-linearity the most effective technique has proved to be constructed through application of either data mining or neural network. Pharmaceutical sector is a rapidly growing in Bangladeshi stock market. The objective of this paper is to investigate whether the hybridization of data mining and neural network technique can be applied in predicting the stock price for Pharmaceutical sector of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Methods/Analysis: This study uses daily trade data for Pharmaceutical sector of DSE. We have analysed the behaviour of daily average price for Pharmaceutical sector of DSE. For this study, 6 top listed pharmaceutical companies have been selected to perform the analysis and selected time frame for the research is 15 years (2000-2015). The analysis is performed in two stages where first stage performs the K-means clustering of data mining method to discover the stock with most useful pattern and second stage applies the nonlinear autoregressive with Exogenous Input neural network method to predict the closing price for the selected stock. Findings: The prediction performance through the hybridization of data mining and neural network technique is evaluated and positive performance improvement of prediction is observed which is very encouraging for investors. The research also depicts that hybridization of data mining and neural network technique can be applied in determining the stock investment decision for Pharmaceutical sector of DSE though the impact of many different information has greater influence in determining the stock price. Novelty/Improvement: We intend to apply the data mining and optimized neural network in predicting stock market. We would like to work with the parameter and learning of the neural network to achieve better result. We will further investigate the effect of various factors viz. dollar price, gold price, FDI, bank interest rate etc. on stock price and index movement.

The chapter showcases the awareness of big data usage among librarians in Zimbabwe. The concept of big data is new, and librarians are building capacity to move with the current trends in librarianship. This chapter assists in pointing areas where big data can be applied in libraries. It also documents the challenges that are faced when using big data applications and proffer solutions that can be applied to deal with those challenges. It answers the question of whether it is practical to utilise big data in any type of library. A qualitative study was done where an online questionnaire was administered to twenty librarians in research institutions in Zimbabwe. The findings revealed that librarians are aware of the big data concept but are not utilising the tools and techniques in data mining and analysis. The authors recommend that capacity building should be done to equip librarians with the requisite skills.

This study aimed to identify patients with the highest risk of periodontal disease (PD), and to provide recommendations for the effective use and application of data mining (DM) techniques when establishing evidence-based dental-care policies for vulnerable groups at a high risk of PD. This study used the SEMMA (Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, and Assess) methodology to construct DM models based on data acquired from the fifth and sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2000-2015). We analyzed the sociodemographic and comorbidity variables that influence PD by applying the popular DM techniques of decision-tree, neural-network, and regression models, and also attempted to improve the predictive power and reliability by comparing the results obtained by these three models. Our comparisons of the three DM algorithms confirmed that the average squared error, misclassification rate, receiver operating characteristic index, Gini coefficient, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test results were the most appropriate for the decision-tree model. The analysis of the decision-tree model revealed that age and smoking status exert major effects on the risk of PD, and that stress and education level exert effects in rural areas, whereas education level, sex, hyperlipidemia, and alcohol intake exert effects in urban areas. We demonstrated that the decision-tree model is an effective DM technique for identifying the complex risk factors for PD. These results are expected to be helpful in improving the equality and efficacy of dental-care policies for vulnerable groups at a high risk of PD.

In knowledge management process, data mining technique can be used to extract and discover the valuable and meaningful knowledge from a large amount of data. Nowadays, data mining has given a great deal of concern and attention in the information industry and in society as a whole. This technique is an approach that is currently receiving great attention in data analysis and it has been recognized as a newly emerging analysis tool (Osei-Bryson, 2010; Park, 2001; Sinha, 2008; Tso & Yau, 2007; Wan, 2009; Zanakis, 2005; Zhuang et al., 2009). Additionally, among the major tasks in data mining are classification and prediction; concept description; rule association; cluster analysis; outlier analysis; trend and evaluation analysis; statistical analysis and others. Classification and prediction tasks are among the popular tasks in data mining; and widely used in many areas especially for trend analysis and future planning. In fact, classification technique is supervised learning, which is the class level or prediction target is already known. As a result, the classification model which is represented through rules structures will be constructed in the classification process. In this case, the constructed model will be representing the precious knowledge and it can be used for future planning. There are many areas which adapted this approach to solve their problems such as in finance, medical, marketing, stock, telecommunication, manufacturing, health care, customer relationship and etc. However, the data mining application has not attracted much attention from people in Human Resource (HR) field (Chien & Chen, 2008; Ranjan, 2008). Besides that, in our previous study, most of the prediction applications are used to predict stock, demand, rate, risk, event and others; but there are quite limited studies on human prediction. In addition prediction applications are mainly developed in business and industrious fields; and quite restricted studies involved human talent in an organization (Jantan et al., 2009). HR data can provide a rich resource for knowledge discovery and for decision support system development. Recently, an organization has to struggle effectively in term of cost, quality, service or innovation. All these depend on having enough right people with the right skills, employed

An information and statistical analysis pipeline for microbial metagenomic sequencing data

With the requirement to find methods to analysis the rapidly increasing data, as a branch of computer science, data mining technique has been widely apply in different domain .One of the most enticing application areas of data mining in these emerging technologies is in finance. To complete the financial tasks, data mining technique is used refer to Stock market forecasting, Bankruptcy Prediction, Credit Risk Estimation, Corporate Performance Prediction and Management Fraud. This paper focuses on new data mining applications in finance. The fast development of Compute technology (such as Cloud Computing) and database together gives data mining a new challenge and chance in data mining of finance. How to apply the new computer and database technique to the data mining, and integrate the previous framework and the new technology together to build a more efficiency and safer framework is a long way to go in the future . Meanwhile, after accumulate enough empirical regularity and experiences, deep field-specific theories will be set up. This means, in the future, it will have more standardized and accurate model and method to apply in different domain of finance by generating more empirical regularities and combining them with domain knowledge.

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Due to the increasing availability and sophistication of data recording techniques, multiple information sources and distributed computing are becoming the important trends of modern information systems. Many applications such as security informatics and social computing require a ubiquitous data analysis platform so that decisions can be made rapidly under distributed and dynamic system environments. Although data mining has now been popularly used to achieve such goals, building a data mining system is, however, a nontrivial task, which may require a complete understanding on numerous data mining techniques as well as solid programming skills. Employing agent techniques for data analysis thus becomes increasingly important, especially for users not familiar with engineering and computational sciences, to implement an effective ubiquitous mining platform. Such data mining agents should, in practice, be intelligent, complete, and compact. In this paper, we present an interactive data mining agent — OIDM (online interactive data mining), which provides three categories (classification, association analysis, and clustering) of data mining tools, and interacts with the user to facilitate the mining process. The interactive mining is accomplished through interviewing the user about the data mining task to gain efficient and intelligent data mining control. OIDM can help users find appropriate mining algorithms, refine and compare the mining process, and finally achieve the best mining results. Such interactive data mining agent techniques provide alternative solutions to rapidly deploy data mining techniques to broader areas of data intelligence and knowledge informatics.

A significant amount of attention appears to be focusing on how to better collect, analyze, and disseminate information. In doing so, technology is commonly and increasingly looked upon as both a tool, and, in some cases, a substitute, for human resources. One such technology that is playing a prominent role in homeland security initiatives is data mining. Similar to the concept of homeland security, while data mining is widely mentioned in a growing number of bills, laws, reports, and other policy documents, an agreed upon definition or conceptualization of data mining appears to be generally lacking within the policy community (Relyea, 2002). While data mining initiatives are usually purported to provide insightful, carefully constructed analysis, at various times data mining itself is alternatively described as a technology, a process, and/or a productivity tool. In other words, data mining, or factual data analysis, or predictive analytics, as it also is sometimes referred to, means different things to different people. Regardless of which definition one prefers, a common theme is the ability to collect and combine, virtually if not physically, multiple data sources, for the purposes of analyzing the actions of individuals. In other words, there is an implicit belief in the power of information, suggesting a continuing trend in the growth of “dataveillance,” or the monitoring and collection of the data trails left by a person’s activities (Clarke, 1988). More importantly, it is clear that there are high expectations for data mining, or factual data analysis, being an effective tool. Data mining is not a new technology but its use is growing significantly in both the private and public sectors. Industries such as banking, insurance, medicine, and retailing commonly use data mining to reduce costs, enhance research, and increase sales. In the public sector, data mining applications initially were used as a means to detect fraud and waste, but have grown to also be used for purposes such as measuring and improving program performance. While not completely without controversy, these types of data mining applications have gained greater acceptance. However, some national defense/homeland security data mining applications represent a significant expansion in the quantity and scope of data to be analyzed. Moreover, due to their security-related nature, the details of these initiatives (e.g., data sources, analytical techniques, access and retention practices, etc.) are usually less transparent.

This paper takes the rural areas of 27 provinces in China from 2009 to 2020 as the research object. Based on the Super-SBM model and the GML index, the efficiency of rural renewable energy is calculated and analyzed from both static and dynamic perspectives. Subsequently, the spatial differences among regions and the sources of these differences are analyzed using the Dagum Gini coefficient method. Finally, the panel Tobit model is used for the analysis of influencing factors. The research results show: (1) Within the study range, the efficiency of renewable energy shows significant spatio-temporal heterogeneity; the GML index presents a U-shaped characteristic, with slight declines in 2015 and 2016, and stable growth in other periods. (2) Regional differences are the main source of overall differences, but they show a gradually decreasing trend, indicating that the imbalance in the development of renewable energy in various regions in China has improved. (3) Economic level, education level, and power infrastructure have significant positive effects on the efficiency of renewable energy, while urbanization level is significantly negatively correlated with the efficiency of rural renewable energy. The impact is complex, and the effect of green finance is not significant.

Can we meet targets for biofuels and renewable energy in transport given the constraints imposed by policy in agriculture and energy?

Increasing the products service life and reducing the number of service visits are becoming more and more top priorities for Original Equipment Manufacturer companies (OEM’s). Condition-based maintenance is often proposed as a solution to reach this goal. However, this latter, is often hampered by the lack of the right information that gives a good indication of the health of the equipment. Furthermore, the processing power needed to compute this information is often not afforded by machine’s processor. In this paper, a remote platform which connects the OEM’s to the customer’s premises is described, allowing thus a local computation of available information. Two approaches are then combined to process the optimal maintenance time. First, data mining techniques and reliability estimation are applied to historical databases of machines running in the field in order to extract the relevant features together with their associated thresholds. Second, prediction algorithm is applied to the selected features in order to estimate the optimal time to preventively perform a maintenance action. The proposed method has been applied to a database of more than 2000 copy machines running in the field and proved to identify easily the relevant features to be forecasted and to offer an accurate prediction of the maintenance action.

Data mining is characterized as a quest for useful knowledge via large quantities of data. Some basic and most common techniques for data extraction are association rules, grouping, clustering, estimation, sequence modeling. For a wide range of applications, data mining techniques are used. Techniques of data analysis are essential to the preparation and implementation of the administration of the learning system, including behavioral guidance and personal behavior appraisal. The article applies data analytical methods to the role of student classification. Several tests are used for the interpretation of the findings. In keeping with the methodology proposed in the paper, the classification using cognitive skills provides more detailed results than the findings of other study published. Five algorithms were used (J48, Naïve Bayes, Multilayer Perception, K Star and SMO). This essay discusses and measures the application of the various algorithms so that factors affecting the success and failure of students can be identified, student performance can be estimated, and the significant consequences of the mathematics system for the second university year can be identified. However the number of exams can be minimized using data mining techniques. In terms of time and consequences, this shortened analysis plays a key role.