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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Jing D. Dai, White Plains, NY (US);
Feng Cheng, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Fishkill, NY (US);
Sambit Sahu, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Jing D. Dai, White Plains, NY (US);
Feng Cheng, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Fishkill, NY (US);
Sambit Sahu, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and on which instructions are stored for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes, upon receiving utility consumption data of a group of elements, defining clusters of elements by like geography and like utility consumption, evaluating a significance of each cluster by comparing an average utility consumption within the cluster with utility consumption of elements neighboring the cluster and determining from a result of the evaluating which clusters exhibit significant differences in utility consumption from the neighboring elements and defining those clusters as regional outliers.