ADMA 2005 Keynote Speeches

 

Topic:  Decision Making With Uncertainty and Data Mining

Speaker: David L. Olson, Professor, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, USA

 

Topic: Complex Network and Web Mining

Speaker: Deyi LI, Professor, Ph.D., Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

 

Topic: In-Depth Data Mining and Its Application In Stock Market

Speaker: Chengqi Zhang, Professor, PhD, DSc., University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

 

Topic: Relevance of Counting in Data Mining Tasks

Speaker: Osmar R. Zaļane, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada.

 

David L. Olson

 

       

David L. Olson

 

 

Management, CBA 209
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, USA

Phone: (402) 472-3915

Fax:     (402) 472-5855

E-mail: dolson3@unl.edu


Web Page: http://www.cba.unl.edu/people/profile.asp?ID=985

 

 

 

David L. Olson is the James & H.K. Stuart Professor in MIS and Othmer Professor at the University of Nebraska.  He received his Ph.D. in Business from the University of Nebraska in 1981.

 

Professor Olson has published research in over 60 refereed journal articles, primarily on the topic of multiple objective decision-making.  He teaches in the management information systems, management science, and operations management areas.  He has authored the books Decision Aids for Selection Problems, Introduction to Information Systems Project Management, and Managerial Issues of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems and co-authored the books Decision Support Models and Expert Systems; Introduction to Management Science; Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis; Business Statistics: Quality Information for Decision Analysis; Statistics, Decision Analysis, and Decision Modeling; and Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems.

 

Professor Olson has made over 100 presentations at international and national conferences on research topics.  He is a member of the Association for Information Systems, the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and the Multiple Criteria Decision Making Society.  He has been the chair for the Data Mining minitrack at AMCIS 2004 and AMCIS 2005.  He has coordinated the Decision Sciences Institute Dissertation Competition, Innovative Education Competition, chaired the Doctoral Affairs Committee, served as nationally elected vice president three times, and as National Program Chair. He was with Texas A&M University from 1981 through 2001, the last two years as Lowry Mays Professor of Business in the Department of Information and Operations Management.  He received a Research Fellow Award from the College of Business and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University, and held the Business Analysis Faculty Excellence Fellowship for two years.  He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

 

 

 

LI Deyi

 

Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Phone+86-10-68130428 66820740
emails:
 ziqin@public2.bta.net.cn ,

   lideyi@cae.cn
   leedeyi@tsinghua.edu.cn

Web Page:  http://www.thss.tsinghua.edu.cn/ldy/index_ldy.asp

Deyi Li, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. Li received his Bachelor of Engineering in Radio Engineering from Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in 1967, Doctor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1983. In 1996, he was conferred the title of Major General. In 1999 he was elected into Chinese Academy of Engineering and in 2003 elected as member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

 

Professor Li currently is a professor, deputy director of Chinese Institute of Electronics, deputy director of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, deputy group leader of Key Projects Expert Group at National Natural Science Foundation of China, director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Lab of Software Engineering, and so on.

 

Professor Li has been the author of two books, editor of six books and published 170 papers. He has supervised about 40 master and doctoral students. In 1985, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in Computer and Control by the IEE (International Education Enterprises) Head Office. In 1999, he received the Outstanding Paper Award from the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control). Professor Li has acquired 17 National or National Defense Force awards for scientific achievement, and has been conferred the honorable title of Outstanding Returned Student from Overseas, and Expert of Outstanding Contributions (Young and Middle-aged Group).

 

 

 

Chengqi Zhang

Faculty of Information Technology

University of Technology, Sydney

Sydney 2007, Australia

E-mail: chengqi@it.uts.edu.au

 

URL: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu/~chengqi

URL: http://www.cmcrc.com/

Tel: +61 2 9514 7941

Fax: +61 2 9514 1807

 

       Chengqi Zhang is a professor in University of Technology, Sydney. He received a BSc degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, an MSc degree from Jilin University, Changchun, a PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a DSc degree (Higher Doctorate) degree from Deakin University, Geelong, all in Computer Science.

        Professor Zhang is a member of Smart eBusiness Systems Laboratory.  His research interests include "Multi-Agent Systems, Data Mining, Information Retrieval on Internet, Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Cooperation under Uncertainty, and Distributed Expert Systems".  He has authored or co-authored of more than 200 research papers. Some of these papers have been published in renowned international journals which include "Artificial Intelligence" and "IEEE Transactions". He is also a co-author of three monographs and a co-editor of nine books.  

        Professor Zhang is a Leader of Data Mining Program for Australian Capital Markets on Cooperative Research Center.  He has more than 15 years teaching experience at the university level. He has also successfully supervised 10 PhD students, and is currently supervising the other 8 PhD students. 

        Professor Zhang is a member of the Australian National Committee for Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, a member of Steering Committee for Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and a member of Steering Committee of Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. He is also a Senior member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE) as well as a member of American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is an Associate Editor of the editorial board for Knowledge and Information Systems: an International Journal (Springer-Verlag) and the editor for Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (IOS Press). He has served as a member of Programme Committees in many international or national conferences, such as the PRICAI'94, PRICAI'96, PRICAI'02, ICMAS'96, ICMAS'98, ICMAS'00, AAMAS'02, and ICML'02. He was the Organising Committee Chair for PRICAI 2000 and Program Committee co-chair of Australian AI'94. He was also the Program Committee Co-Chair for PRICAI 2004 and General Co-Chair for PAKDD 2004.

         He is currently a guest editor of a special issue for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

 

 

 

Osmar R. Zaļane

 

       

Osmar R. Zaļane

 

University of Alberta, Canada

E-mail: zaiane @ cs.ualberta.ca
Web Page: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/

 

         Osmar R. Zaļane is an Associate Professor in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. He joined the University of Alberta in July of 1999. He obtained a Master's degree in Electronics at the University of Paris, France, in 1989 and a Master's degree in Computer Science at Laval University, Canada, in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Canada, in 1999 under the supervision of Dr. Jiawei Han. His Ph.D. thesis work focused on web mining and multimedia data mining. He has research interests in novel data mining algorithms, web mining, text mining, image mining, and information retrieval. The main projects he is leading are DIVE-ON, an immersed virtual environment for data warehouse and data mining results visualization, MetaWeb, a web-content mining and web-warehousing system, ExaQuest, a data mining toolbox, and a web-usage mining project on web mining for web activity evaluation and intelligent restructuring of web-based learning environments.

        Osmar R. Zaļane has published more than 70 papers in international conferences and journals. Osmar Zaļane was the co-chair of the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining in 2000, 2001 and 2002 as well as co-Chair of the ACM SIGKDD WebKDD workshop in 2002 and 2003. He was editor of the special issue on multimedia data mining of the journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Kluwer), and wrote multiple book chapters on multimedia mining and web mining. He has been an ACM Member since 1986. Osmar Zaļane is the ACM SIGKDD Explorations Associate Editor.