Title
Subgroup Discovery in Smart Electricity Meter Data
Abstract
This work presents data mining methods for discovering unusual consumption patterns and their associated descriptive models from smart electricity meter data. At present, data mining and knowledge discovery in electricity meter data suffer from three notable weaknesses: 1) insufficient focus on intelligent data analysis of subgroups (subsets) whose patterns vary significantly from aggregate patterns embodied in an entire dataset; 2) a lack of effort towards generating intuitively understandable and practically applicable knowledge for industrial practitioners to identify such subgroups; and 3) limited knowledge regarding the link between unusual consumption patterns and household consumers' socio-demographic characteristics. This paper addresses these practically important but technically challenging issues by applying subgroup discovery algorithms to a real smart electricity meter dataset. Subgroups whose patterns are unusual and whose sizes are large enough are discovered, and their descriptive and predictive models are generated. Furthermore, to enrich subgroup discovery algorithms, three new-quality measures for real-valued targets are proposed. The comparative studies empirically evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of subgroup discovery on classification accuracy, predictive power, and computational resources. The methodologies and algorithms presented are generic, and therefore applicable to a wider range of data mining problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TII.2014.2311968
IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
time series analysis,intelligent data analysis,data mining methods,pattern classification,smart meters,power meters,new-quality measures,unusual consumption pattern discovery,computational resources,demography,socio-demographic characteristics,smart electricity meter data,subgroup discovery algorithms,power engineering computing,data mining,knowledge discovery,classification accuracy,associated descriptive models,predictive model,predictive power,accuracy,electricity,computer science,informatics,data analysis
Data science,Time series,Informatics,Predictive power,Electricity,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge extraction,Electricity meter,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
2
1551-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.50
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nanlin Jin1518.70
Peter A. Flach23457269.66
Tom Wilcox3241.88
Royston Sellman4181.99
Joshua Thumim590.88
Arno J. Knobbe618020.95