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Genetic Algorithm-Based Association Rule Mining Approach Towards Rule Generation of Occupational Accidents

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Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA 2017)

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Occupational accident is a grave issue for any industry. Therefore, proper analysis of accident data should be carried out to find out the accident patterns so that precautionary measures could be undertaken beforehand. Association rule mining (ARM) technique is mostly used in this scenario to find out the association (i.e., rules) causing accidents. But, among the rules generated by ARM, all are not useful. To handle this kind of problem, a new model ARM and genetic algorithm (GA) has been proposed in this study. The model automatically selects the optimal Support and Confidence value to generate useful rules. Out of 1285 data obtained from a steel industry in India, eleven useful rules are generated using this proposed method. The findings from this study have the potential to help the management take the better decisions to mitigate the occurrence of accidents.

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The authors are thankful to the safety personnel for their kind support from the collection of data to the final evaluation phase of the project.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

    Sobhan Sarkar & Jhareswar Maiti

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

    Ankit Lohani

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Sarkar, S., Lohani, A., Maiti, J. (2017). Genetic Algorithm-Based Association Rule Mining Approach Towards Rule Generation of Occupational Accidents. In: Mandal, J., Dutta, P., Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics. CICBA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 776. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6430-2_40

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