News (2010)

News (2010)

NSERC USRA 2010

Undergraduate Co-op student Lijing Sun, who is enrolled in the B.C.Sc.(Hons.) degree program, won an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) to conduct a full-time 16-week research project on "Mining frequent sets of items from uncertain data" in the area of data mining under the academic supervision of Dr. Carson K. Leung.

KDD - UP'10

Jilles Vreeken, Nikolaj Tatti, Bart Goethals:

Useful Patterns (UP'10): ACM SIGKDD Workshop Report.

ACM SIGKDD Explorations 12(2):

56-58 (December 2010)

On the topic of pattern presentation, Chris Carmichael and Carson K. Leung presented a visualization technique in their paper titled 'Visualising Useful Patterns'. In their approach, the authors visualize itemsets in a plot with x-axis representing items and y-axis representing the frequency. An itemset is then plotted as a series of connected circles. To avoid clutter, authors use several techniques: they use only closed itemsets, itemsets with same the frequency are collapsed into one set, these groups can be dynamically expanded to show individual items, and finally itemsets having the same prefix and the same frequency are grouped into trees. By doing so, the authors framework allows the user to see the big picture instantly while at the same time providing means for more detailed exploration.

C3S2E '10

    1. Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as a Program Chair for the C3S2E '10 Conference (May 19-20, 2010 in Montréal, QC, Canada). He, Dr. Bipin C. Desai, and Dr. Sudhir P. Mudur are the editors of the Proceedings of C3S2E '10 Conference, which is published by the ACM Press.

    2. Bipin C. Desai, Carson K. Leung, Sudhir P. Mudur:

    3. Preface.

    4. In Bipin C. Desai, Carson K. Leung, Sudhir P. Mudur (eds.):

    5. Proceedings of the Third C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E 2010),

    6. Montréal, Quebec, Canada, May 19-20, 2010,

    7. ACM Press,

    8. ISBN 978-1-60558-901-5

      1. Preface

      2. The C* Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (C3S2E) was established in 2008. C3S2E 2010 is the third annual meeting in the C3S2E conference series and is held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, during May 19-20, 2010. The conference aims to address the need of the academic community in computer science and software engineering. It brings together academics, government and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in a broad range of areas in the field of computer science and software engineering such as algorithms and theory, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer architecture, computer graphics, computer security, computer vision, data mining, databases, image processing, information retrieval, machine learning, as well as software engineering. C3S2E 2010 also serves as a platform for theoreticians and practitioners to exchange their original research ideas on academic or application aspects of computing and engineering of software systems, present their new findings on theoretical or practical aspects of computer science and software engineering, share their experiences on integrating new technologies into products and applications, discuss their work on applying computing and software engineering to real-life situations, describe their development and operations of challenging computing related systems, and identify unsolved challenges.

      3. Although it is the third time C3S2E is held, this comprehensive conference has grown from a Canadian conference into an international conference. For C3S2E 2010, we continue to keep our tradition for inviting international experts in various areas of computer science and software engineering to join our team of international program committee. As a result, our Program Committee consists of professionals from different parts of the world including Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, Turkey, UAE, and UK. This committee has done an excellent job in finishing the single-blind review and on-line double-blind debate processes in record time. On average, about 90% of reviews were submitted by the due date and about 3.67 reviews were received for each paper. In terms of submissions, we have attracted many high-quality papers submitted by authors globally. The paper selection process was thorough and competitive. On average, each paper was refereed by at least three reviewers, and about 18% of submissions were accepted as full research papers. This year, we have an intensive program that spans over two days. In addition to research papers and student posters, we also include position papers, which allow authors to give their opinions and vision on exploring new concepts and research directions.

      4. This conference would not have been possible without the help and effort of many people and organizations. We thank ACM Press, BytePress, Concordia University, and The University of Manitoba for their support of this conference. We are grateful to members of the Program Committee for their professionalism and dedication in the process of judging the contributions of papers and producing constructive comments to the authors.

      5. Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada

      6. Carson K. Leung, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

      7. Sudhir P. Mudur, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada

Celebration of Excellence 2010

    1. Excellence of Dr. Carson K. Leung and one of his lab members were recognized at the Celebration of Excellence organized by UofM Faculty of Science held Tuesday, February 9, 2010:

      • Congratulation to Dr. Carson K. Leung, who was recognized as one of the faculty members with 5-year anniversary and received tenure in 2009.

      • Congratulation to Mark Anthony F. Mateo, who was recognized as a recipient of the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF). Among all Master's and PhD students, he was one of 17 recipients to renew this award.

    2. Faculty of Science Celebration of Excellence

      1. Faculty and Support Staff Anniversary Recognition

  1. 5 Years

      • Carson Leung (Computer Science)

      1. Student Awards

  1. University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowships

  2. Renewals

      • Sameer Kumar, Mark Mateo (Computer Science)

      1. Faculty Awards

  1. Faculty members who received Tenure in 2009

      • Carson Leung (Computer Science)