User Activities Outliers Detection; Integration of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Techniques. (24th June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mahmoud, Sawsan; Lotfi, Ahmad; Langensiepen, Caroline
• Is Part Of: Computational intelligence. Volume 32:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 49
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2014-06-24
• Subjects: intelligent environments -- smart homes -- outlier detection -- abnormal behavior -- principal component analysis -- fuzzy rule‐based system -- distance measure; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Computational linguistics -- Periodicals; 006.3
• DOI: 10.1111/coin.12045
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0824-7935

Abstract

Abstract : In this article, a hybrid technique for user activities outliers detection is introduced. The hybrid technique consists of a two‐stage integration of principal component analysis and fuzzy rule‐based systems. In the first stage, the Hamming distance is used to measure the differences between different activities. Principal component analysis is then applied to the distance measures to find two indices of Hotelling's T 2 and squared prediction error. In the second stage of the process, the calculated indices are provided as inputs to the fuzzy rule‐based systems to model them heuristically. The model is used to identify the outliers and classify them. The proposed system is tested in real home environments, equipped with appropriate sensory devices, to identify outliers in the activities of daily living of the user. Three case studies are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. The proposed system successfully identifies the outliers in activities distinguishing between the normal and abnormal behavioral patterns.