Discovering Useful Knowledge from Aircraft Operation/Maintenance Data

In this paper we present an overview of our research in discovering useful knowledge from data acquired during the operation and maintenance of a fleet of commercial aircraft. In particular, we discuss the application domain and explain some of the constraints that we have encountered in analyzing this data. We present the approach that we have developed to efficiently analyze large amounts of diverse forms of data available in this domain. Preliminary results for one of the problems that we have investigated are given. Further work and challenging issues are proposed at the end. Keywords: Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, Feature Engineering, Intelligent Decision Support, Aircraft Operation 1 INTRODUCTION Today, in almost all industries, vast amounts of data, numeric and symbolic, are continuously generated. This is due to increasing progress in the development of process monitoring and data acquisition systems. The situation is particularly true in the operation/maintenance of com..