EBV: Electronic Bee-Veterinarian for Principled Mining and Forecasting of Honeybee Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01902v1
• Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 21:05:56 GMT
• Title: EBV: Electronic Bee-Veterinarian for Principled Mining and Forecasting of Honeybee Time Series
• Authors: Mst. Shamima Hossain, Christos Faloutsos, Boris Baer, Hyoseung Kim, Vassilis J. Tsotras
• Abstract summary: Honeybees are vital for pollination and food production. Anticipating such extremities would allow beekeepers to take early preventive action. Forecasting is crucial as it helps spot unexpected behavior and thus issue warnings to the beekeepers. We propose the EBV (Electronic Bee-Veterinarian) method, which has the following desirable properties.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Honeybees are vital for pollination and food production. Among many factors, extreme temperature (e.g., due to climate change) is particularly dangerous for bee health. Anticipating such extremities would allow beekeepers to take early preventive action. Thus, given sensor (temperature) time series data from beehives, how can we find patterns and do forecasting? Forecasting is crucial as it helps spot unexpected behavior and thus issue warnings to the beekeepers. In that case, what are the right models for forecasting? ARIMA, RNNs, or something else? We propose the EBV (Electronic Bee-Veterinarian) method, which has the following desirable properties: (i) principled: it is based on a) diffusion equations from physics and b) control theory for feedback-loop controllers; (ii) effective: it works well on multiple, real-world time sequences, (iii) explainable: it needs only a handful of parameters (e.g., bee strength) that beekeepers can easily understand and trust, and (iv) scalable: it performs linearly in time. We applied our method to multiple real-world time sequences, and found that it yields accurate forecasting (up to 49% improvement in RMSE compared to baselines), and segmentation. Specifically, discontinuities detected by EBV mostly coincide with domain expert's opinions, showcasing our approach's potential and practical feasibility. Moreover, EBV is scalable and fast, taking about 20 minutes on a stock laptop for reconstructing two months of sensor data.

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