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.
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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.
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Chengqi Zhang
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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 Tel: +61 2 9514 7941 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 |
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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.
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Osmar R. Zaļane University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: zaiane @ cs.ualberta.ca |
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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. |
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