Catastrophic extraction of anomalous events
Tomasz P. Jannson, Thomas C. Forrester, Sookwang Ro, Andrew A. Kostrzewski · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2012
In this paper we discuss extraction of anomalous events based on the theory of catastrophes, a mathematical theory of continuous geometrical manifolds with discrete singularities called catastrophes. Intelligence exploitation systems and technologies include such novel data mining techniques as automatic extraction of discrete anomalous events by software algorithms based on the theory of catastrophes, that can reduce complex problems to a few essential so-called state variables. This paper discusses mostly corank-1 catastrophes with only one state variable, for simplicity. As an example we discuss mostly avionics platforms and catastrophic failures that can be recorded by flight instruments.