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The implementation of strategies for fault detection and diagnosis on rotating electrical machines is crucial for the reliability and safety of modern industrial systems. The contribution of this work is a methodology that combines…
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Effective operations and maintenance (O&M) in modern production systems hinges on careful orchestration of economic and degradation dependencies across a multitude of assets. While the economic dependencies are well studied, degradation…
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Relational databases are extensively utilized in a variety of modern information system applications, and they always carry valuable data patterns. There are a huge number of data mining or machine learning tasks conducted on relational…
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