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2023

Unsupervised Online Event Ranking for IT Operations

Authors
Mendes, TC; Barata, AA; Pereira, M; Moreira, JM; Camacho, R; Sousa, RT;

Publication
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2023 - 24th International Conference, Évora, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023, Proceedings

Abstract
Keeping high service levels of a fast-growing number of servers is crucial and challenging for IT operations teams. Online monitoring systems trigger many occurrences that experts find hard to keep up with. In addition, most of the triggered warnings do not correspond to real, critical problems, making it difficult for technicians to know which to focus on and address in a timely manner. Outlier and concept drift detection techniques can be applied to multiple streams of readings related to server monitoring metrics, but they also generate many False Positives. Ranking algorithms can already prioritize relevant results in information retrieval and recommender systems. However, these approaches are supervised, making them inapplicable in event detection on data streams. We propose a framework that combines event aggregations and uses a customized clustering algorithm to score and rank alarms in the context of IT operations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first unsupervised, online, high-dimensional approach to rank IT ops events and contributes to advancing knowledge about associated key concepts and challenges of this problem. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

2023

Time-Series Pattern Verification in CNC Machining Data

Authors
Silva, JM; Nogueira, AR; Pinto, J; Alves, AC; Sousa, R;

Publication
PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EPIA 2023, PT I

Abstract
Effective quality control is essential for efficient and successful manufacturing processes in the era of Industry 4.0. Artificial Intelligence solutions are increasingly employed to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of quality control methods. In Computer Numerical Control machining, challenges involve identifying and verifying specific patterns of interest or trends in a time-series dataset. However, this can be a challenge due to the extensive diversity. Therefore, this work aims to develop a methodology capable of verifying the presence of a specific pattern of interest in a given collection of time-series. This study mainly focuses on evaluating One-Class Classification techniques using Linear Frequency Cepstral Coefficients to describe the patterns on the time-series. A real-world dataset produced by turning machines was used, where a time-series with a certain pattern needed to be verified to monitor the wear offset. The initial findings reveal that the classifiers can accurately distinguish between the time-series' target pattern and the remaining data. Specifically, the One-Class Support Vector Machine achieves a classification accuracy of 95.6 % +/- 1.2 and an F1-score of 95.4 % +/- 1.3.

2023

Predicting US Energy Consumption Utilizing Artificial Neural Network

Authors
Pasandidehpoor, M; Mendes Moreira, J; Rahman Mohammadpour, S; Sousa, RT;

Publication
Handbook of Smart Energy Systems

Abstract

2023

Geovisualisation Tools for Reporting and Monitoring Transthyretin-Associated Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy Disease

Authors
Lopo, RX; Jorge, AM; Pedroto, M;

Publication
MACHINE LEARNING AND PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, ECML PKDD 2022, PT I

Abstract
Transthyretin-associated Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) is a chronic fatal disease with a high incidence in Portugal. It is therefore relevant to provide professionals and citizens with a tool that enables a detailed geographical and territorial study. For this reason, we have developed an web based application that brings together techniques applied to spatial data that allow the study of the historical progression and growth of cases in patients' residential areas and areas of origin as well as an epidemic forecast. The tool enables the exploration of geographical longitudinal data at national, district and county levels. High density regions and periods can be visually identified according to parameters selected by the user. The visual evaluation of the data and its comparison across different time spans of the disease era can have an impact on more informed decision making by those working with patients to improve their quality of life, treatment or follow-up. The tool is available online for data exploration and its code is available on GitHub for adaptation to other geospatial scenarios.

2023

Text2Storyline: Generating Enriched Storylines from Text

Authors
Goncalves, F; Campos, R; Jorge, A;

Publication
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, ECIR 2023, PT III

Abstract
In recent years, the amount of information generated, consumed and stored has grown at an astonishing rate, making it difficult for those seeking information to extract knowledge in good time. This has become even more important, as the average reader is not as willing to spare more time out of their already busy schedule as in the past, thus prioritizing news in a summarized format, which are faster to digest. On top of that, people tend to increasingly rely on strong visual components to help them understand the focal point of news articles in a less tiresome manner. This growing demand, focused on exploring information through visual aspects, urges the need for the emergence of alternative approaches concerned with text understanding and narrative exploration. This motivated us to propose Text2Storyline, a platform for generating and exploring enriched storylines from an input text, a URL or a user query. The latter is to be issued on the PortugueseWebArchive (Arquivo.pt), therefore giving users the chance to expand their knowledge and build up on information collected from web sources of the past. To fulfill this objective, we propose a system that makes use of the TimeMatters algorithm to filter out non-relevant dates and organize relevant content by means of different displays: `Annotated Text', `Entities', `Storyline', `Temporal Clustering' and `Word Cloud'. To extend the users' knowledge, we rely on entity linking to connect persons, events, locations and concepts found in the text to Wikipedia pages, a process also known as Wikification. Each of the entities is then illustrated by means of an image collected from the Arquivo.pt.

2023

Annotation and Visualisation of Reporting Events in Textual Narratives

Authors
Silvano, P; Amorim, E; Leal, A; Cantante, I; Silva, F; Jorge, A; Campos, R; Nunes, S;

Publication
Proceedings of Text2Story - Sixth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023.

Abstract
News articles typically include reporting events to inform on what happened. These reporting events are not part of the story being told but are nonetheless a relevant part of the news and can pose a challenge to the computational processing of news narratives. They compose a reporting narrative, which is the present study's focus. This paper aims to demonstrate through selected use cases how a comprehensive annotation scheme with suitable tags and links can properly represent the reporting events and the way they relate to the events that make the story. In addition, we put forward a proposal for their visual representation that enables a systematic and detailed analysis of the importance of reporting events in the news structure. Finally, we describe some lexico-grammatical features of reporting events, which can contribute to their automatic detection. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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