News (2011)
News (2011)
IEEE ICDM 2011
Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as the Local Arrangements Chair for the IEEE ICDM 2011 Conference (December 11-14, 2011 in Vancouver, BC, Canada). He takes care of all three invited keynote talks, 21 technical research sessions, a panel session, four tutorials, seven demos, three exhibitions, a PhD forum, as well as 19 workshops (which are composed of seven full-day and 12 half-day workshops). Dr. Leung also arranges the reception, the excursion tour, the banquet, the community meeting lunch, and coffee breaks. Moreover, he coordinates with all 72 volunteers and members of the Organization Committee to ensure the conference runs smoothly.
On Sunday, December 11, 2011, Fan Jiang presented a refereed paper titled "FpMapViz: A space-filling visualization for frequent patterns", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung) and their collaborator (Dr. Pourang P. Irani), in IEEE ICDM 2011 held in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Wei Wang, Osmar R. Zaïane:
IEEE ICDM 2011:
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Organizing an international conference, the magnitude of ICDM, is not an easy task. It requires the coordination of a multitude of individuals and a tremendous effort by an army of volunteers. Without these volunteers, many of them working on the organization for a full year, such a large conference can not take place. The individuals involved are from the students helping at the conference registration, packing of bags, setting up audio, visual equipment, to selection committee members and scientific reviewers as well as the organizers of the program, the logistics, publicity, sponsorship and finance. We would like to officially warm heartedly thank all volunteers for their hard work, and to whom the success of this conference is attributed. In particular, we would like to extend our gratitude for an excellent technical program to: Diane Cook and Jian Pei (Program co- Chairs), Myra Spiliopoulou and Haixun Wang (Workshops Co-Chairs), Evimaria Terzi and Jure Leskovec (Tutorials Co-Chairs), Ming Hua and Alex Thomo (Exhibits and Demos Co-Chairs), Ashok Srivastava and Larry Holder (Contest Co-Chairs), Rosa Meo and Alfredo Cuzzocrea (PhD Forum Co-Chairs), and George Karypis (Panel Chair). Of course the program in itself is not enough to have a successful and memorable conference and we owe the accomplishment of this fine organization to Xindong Wu (ICDM Steering Committee Chair), Charles X. Ling (Finance Chair), Carson Leung (Local Arrangements Chair), Olfa Nasraoui, Latifur Khan and Jie Tang (Publicity Co-Chairs), Wei Ding and Gabor Melli (Sponsorship Co-Chairs), Justin Fagnan (Webmaster), and Juzhen Dong (Cyberchair). We would like to highlight their tremendous contributions.
Wei Wang and Osmar R. Zaïane
ICDM 2011 Conference General Chairs
SCA 2011 & JOCEC 24(2-3) (2014)
Our refereed SCA 2011 paper titled "Finding strong groups of friends among friends in social networks" was selected as one of the eight papers in SCA 2011 to be extended for inclusion in a special issue on Social Networks for Organizational Computing in the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. The resulting journal article was published in JOCEC/HOCE by Taylor & Francis in 2014.
SCA 2011
On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, Juan J. Cameron presented a refereed paper titled "Finding strong groups of friends among friends in social networks", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung) and his fellow lab member (Dr. Syed K. Tanbeer), in SCA 2011 held in Sydney, NSW, Australia. The paper was published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
ICA3PP 2011 & FGCS 37 (2014)
Our refereed ICA3PP 2011 paper titled "Distributed mining of constrained frequent sets from uncertain data" was selected as one of the 12 papers in ICA3PP 2011 to be extended and enhanced for inclusion in a special issue on Innovative methods and algorithms for advanced data-intensive computing in the Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems. The resulting journal article was published in FGCS by Elsevier in 2014.
IEEE/IFIP EUC 2011
Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as a Program Vice-Chair for the 2011 IFIP Ninth International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2011), held October 24-26, 2011 in Melbourne, VIC, Australia). He oversees the Multimedia and Data Management Track.
Yang Xiang, Walid Taha, Hua Wang:
IEEE/IFIP EUC 2011:
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The conference has 12 topic tracks and we were assisted in the creation of the international program committee and in the review process by the Program Vice Chairs who are reputed experts in their fields: Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Embedded Systems Software and Optimization), Marco D. Santambrogio (Embedded Systems and Hardware/Software Co-Design), Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things), Luigi Palopoli (Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems), Meikang Qiu (Power-Aware Computing), Song Guo (Wireless Networks), Habib M. Ammari (Sensor Networks), Stan Kurkovsky (Mobile and Context-aware Computing), Omer F. Rana (Agent and Distributed Computing), Aniruddha Gokhale (Middleware for Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing), Carson Kai-Sang Leung (Multimedia and Data Management), and Avinash Srinivasan (Autonomic, Organic and Trusted Computing). We are grateful for their contributions to the success of EUC 2011 and thank them for creating program committees for their tracks and for overseeing the review process.
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia
Walid Taha, Halmstad University, Sweden
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
EUC 2011 Program Chairs
KES 2011
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, Nihad K. Chowdhury presented a refereed paper titled "Improved travel time prediction algorithms for intelligent transportation systems", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung), in KES 2011 held in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The paper was published by Springer.
EIDWT 2011
Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as a Track Chair for the Second International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2011), held September 7-9, 2011 in Tirana/Tiranë, Albania). He oversees the Social Networking and Mining track. The conference proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
DaWaK '11 & LNCS TLDKS 8 (2013)
Our refereed DaWaK'11 paper titled "Frequent pattern mining from time-fading streams of uncertain data" was selected as one of the eight papers in DaWaK'11 to be extended and enhanced for inclusion in a special issue of LNCS Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems (TLDKS Journal). The resulting journal article was published in TLDKS VIII (LNCS 7790) by Springer-Verlag in 2013.
Han et al.'s Data Mining (3e)
Errata of Data Mining (3rd Edition)
Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei:
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, July 2011. ISBN 978-0123814791
Chapter 12. Outlier Detection
Section 12.11 (p. 583) starts with "Hawkins [Haw80] defined outliers from a statics angle. This reference (i.e., [Haw80] D.M. Hawkins. Identification of Outliers. Chapman and Hall, 1980.) was omitted from the Bibliography. (08/04/2011, by Carson K. Leung, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada)
IEEE TIE 58(6)
Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Ernesto Damiani, Milos Manic, Achim P. Karduck, Marc Kuster, Alex Talevski, Sergiu-Dan Stan, Stig Petersen:
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE) 58(6),
special issue on digital ecosystems and cyber engineering:
2059-2064 (June 2011)
Cyber Engineering:
The first paper in this subsection is by Lee et al. entitled "Mobile Web Navigation in Digital Ecosystems Using Rooted Directed Trees." In this paper, the authors present an intelligent and novel mechanism for mobile web navigation. The research contributions in this paper have been validated on top of various wireless networking protocols including 802.11g.
ELIZABETH CHANG, Guest Editor
DEBI Institute, Curtin University of Technology, erth, WA, 6845, Australia
THARAM S. DILLON, Guest Editor
DEBI Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
ERNESTO DAMIANI, Guest Editor
Department of Computer Technology, University of Milan, I-26013 Crema, Italy
MILOS MANIC, Guest Editor
Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 83402 USA
ACHIM P. KARDUCK, Guest Editor
Telematics Department, Furtwangen University, 78120 Furtwangen, Germany
MARC KUSTER, Guest Editor
Computer Science Department, University of Applied Studies, D-67549 Worms, Germany
ALEX TALEVSKI, Guest Editor
DEBI Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
SERGIU-DAN STAN, Guest Editor
Department of Mechanisms, Precision Mechanics, and Mechatronics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400641 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
STIG PETERSEN, Guest Editor
Department of Communication Systems, SINTEF ICT, 7465 Trondheim, Norway
Tanbeer's Teaching
Dr. Syed K. Tanbeer, a post-doctoral fellow in our lab, teaches:
lecture-based COMP 1260 (A01) (Introductory Computer Usage 1) in Summer 2011 on every Wednesday at 7pm-10pm in E2-320 EITC from May 04 to August 03, 2011; and
distance & online education-based COMP 1260 (D01) in Fall 2011 from September 08 to December 07, 2011.
Alan Mackworth's Visit
On Thursday, March 03, 2011, Dr. Alan K. Mackworth (a Professor of Computer Science and a Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence at UBC) gave a UofM CS seminar on "Designing constraint-based agents". Mackworth served as the founding Director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence (LCI). He is a Fellow of AAAI, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth co-authored the book titled Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Celebration of Excellence 2011
Congratulation to B.C.Sc.(Hons.) student Lijing Sun, who was recognized as a recipient of the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) at the Celebration of Excellence organized by UofM Faculty of Science held Tuesday, February 08, 2011. Among all 31 NSERC USRA recipients, she was the only one from Computer Science.
Celebration of Excellence
Student Awards
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Lijing Sun (Computer Science)
VAIT (2011)
Qingyu Zhang, Richard S. Segall, Mei Cao (Eds.):
Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies: Data, Text and Web Mining Applications
(October 2010)
ISBN 978-1-60960-102-7
Detailed Table of Contents (pp. vii-xiii)
This chapter proposes an interactive visual analytic system called iVAS for providing visual analytic solutions to the frequent set mining problem. The system enables the visualization and advanced analysis of the original transaction databases as well as the frequent sets mined from these databases. Numerous algorithms have been proposed for finding frequent sets of items, which are usually presented in a lengthy textual list. However, the use of visual representations can enhance user understanding of the inherent relations among the frequent sets.
Chapter 13, iVAS: An Interactive Visual Analytic System for Frequent Set Mining, by Carson Kai-Sang Leung and Christopher L. Carmichael, proposes an interactive visual analytic system called iVAS for providing visual analytic solutions to the frequent set mining problem. The system enables the visualization and advanced analysis of the original transaction databases as well as the frequent sets mined from these databases. Numerous algorithms have been proposed for finding frequent sets of items, which are usually presented in a lengthy textual list. However, the use of visual representations can enhance user understanding of the inherent relations among the frequent sets.
About the Contributors (pp. 328-337) [igi]
Christopher L. Carmichael received his B.C.Sc. (Honours) degree, with major in computer science and minor in mathematics, from The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Before that, he earned his diploma in mechanical engineering technology from Red River College, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, and spent a long career in designing and programming commercial control systems for building heating/air conditioning ventilation systems. Currently, he is pursuing his thesis-based M.Sc. degree program in computer science at The University of Manitoba under the academic supervision of Dr. Carson K.-S. Leung. Mr. Carmichael enjoys conducting research in the areas of data mining, data visualization, and visual analytics.
Carson K.-S. Leung received his B.Sc. (Honours), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees, all in computer science, from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. His research interests include the areas of databases, data mining, data warehousing, data visualization, and visual analytics. His work has been published in refereed international journals and conferences such as ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). In recent years, he has served as a Program Committee member for conferences like European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) and an Organizing Committee member for conferences like ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.