Preliminary report on data mining techniques for life prediction

This project is an extension of a previous CRC project (220-059-B) which developed\ud a program for life prediction of gutters in Queensland schools. A number of sources\ud of information on service life of metallic building components were formed into\ud databases linked to a Case-Based Reasoning Engine which extracted relevant cases\ud from each source. In the initial software, no attempt was made to choose between\ud the results offered or construct a case for retention in the casebase.\ud In this phase of the project, alternative data mining techniques will be explored and\ud evaluated. A process for selecting a unique service life prediction for each query will\ud also be investigated. This report summarises the initial evaluation of several data\ud mining techniques