Identify Incident Factors to Support Aviation Safety Decision-Making: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach

dc.contributor.advisorRad, Paul
dc.contributor.authorYang, Qiwei
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJamshidi, Mo
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBenavidez, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-08T17:34:27Z
dc.date.available2024-03-08T17:34:27Z
dc.date.issued2020
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dc.description.abstractAviation is a complicated business, and safety is of paramount importance because casualties involve once an operational aircraft fails. Prevention is arguably the best strategy for aviation safety. Analyzing the database of past incidents to prevent accidents from happening has been approved a success. Incident reporting systems, a sub-system of business management systems, require human experts' efforts to review incident reports to identify probable primary and contributing factors of incidents so that new effective prevention plans can be designed accordingly. However, human experts' reviews have become prohibitively expensive nowadays because generated incident reports are increased exponentially due to the accelerated advancement in information technologies and the prosperity of the commercial and private aviation business. As a consequence, intelligent technologies shall be applied to help aviation experts facilitate incident analysis. The research presented in this study shows that the use of deep learning methods to automate incident report analysis is a promising approach. About 172,990 qualified incident reports from the ASRS database between January 1988 and July 2019 are collected to train and build a deep learning model to identify the primary and contributing factors for each incident report. The decision support solution I develop is not only automated and customizable, but has higher accuracy and better adaptability than conventionally machine learning methods in extant research. This novel application of the deep learning method on the incident reporting system can efficiently assist human experts in the incident analysis.
dc.description.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineering
dc.format.extent62 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9798557049696
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/6055
dc.languageen
dc.subjectDeep Learning
dc.subjectIncident Report
dc.subjectNLP
dc.subjectSafety Management
dc.subject.classificationElectrical engineering
dc.subject.classificationAerospace engineering
dc.subject.classificationArtificial intelligence
dc.titleIdentify Incident Factors to Support Aviation Safety Decision-Making: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.accessRightspq_closed
thesis.degree.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science

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