3D SPATIAL DATA MINING ON DOCUMENT SETS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF FAILURE CAUSES IN COMPLEX TECHNICAL DEVICES

Timo Götzelmann, Knut Hartmann, Andreas Nürnberger, Thomas Strothotte

2007

Abstract

The retrospective fault analysis of complex technical devices based on documents emerging in the advanced steps of the product life cycle can reveal error sources and problems, which have not been discovered by simulations or other test methods in the early stages of the product life cycle. This paper presents a novel approach to support the failure analysis through (i) a semi-automatic analysis of databases containing product-related documents in natural language (e. g., problem and error descriptions, repair and maintenance protocols, service bills) using information retrieval and text mining techniques and (ii) an interactive exploration of the data mining results. Our system supports visual data mining by mapping the results of analyzing failure-related documents onto corresponding 3D models. Thus, visualization of statistics about failure sources can reveal problem sources resulting from problematic spatial configurations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Götzelmann T., Hartmann K., Nürnberger A. and Strothotte T. (2007). 3D SPATIAL DATA MINING ON DOCUMENT SETS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF FAILURE CAUSES IN COMPLEX TECHNICAL DEVICES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-72-6, pages 137-145. DOI: 10.5220/0002082101370145

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Timo Götzelmann and Knut Hartmann and Andreas Nürnberger and Thomas Strothotte},
title={3D SPATIAL DATA MINING ON DOCUMENT SETS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF FAILURE CAUSES IN COMPLEX TECHNICAL DEVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={137-145},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002082101370145},
isbn={978-972-8865-72-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,
TI - 3D SPATIAL DATA MINING ON DOCUMENT SETS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF FAILURE CAUSES IN COMPLEX TECHNICAL DEVICES
SN - 978-972-8865-72-6
AU - Götzelmann T.
AU - Hartmann K.
AU - Nürnberger A.
AU - Strothotte T.
PY - 2007
SP - 137
EP - 145
DO - 10.5220/0002082101370145