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http://dx.doi.org/10.12985/ksaa.2021.29.2.084

A Study on the Visualization of an Airline's Fleet State Variation  

Lee, Yonghwa (한국항공대학교 항공교통물류학과)
Lee, Juhwan (한국항공대학교 항공교통물류학과)
Lee, Keumjin (한국항공대학교 항공교통물류학부)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics / v.29, no.2, 2021 , pp. 84-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
Airline schedule is the most basic data for flight operations and has significant importance to an airline's management. It is crucial to know the airline's current schedule status in order to effectively manage the company and to be prepared for abnormal situations. In this study, machine learning techniques were applied to actual schedule data to examine the possibility of whether the airline's fleet state could be artificially learned without prior information. Given that the schedule is in categorical form, One Hot Encoding was applied and t-SNE was used to reduce the dimension of the data and visualize them to gain insights into the airline's overall fleet status. Interesting results were discovered from the experiments where the initial findings are expected to contribute to the fields of airline schedule health monitoring, anomaly detection, and disruption management.
Keywords
Airline Schedule; Airline Fleet; Machine Learning; Data Visualization; Health Monitoring;
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