Full Schedule


Wednesday 17 September

Invited Talk

Wednesday 17 September
09:00 - 10:00
Location: Aula Rector Dhanis

Session chair: Bart Goethals


09:00Industrializing Data Mining, Challenges and Perspectives
Françoise Fogelman-Soulie - KXEN, France
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Kernel Methods

Wednesday 17 September
10:40 - 12:00
Location: R001

Session chair: Ulf Brefeld


10:40On the equivalence of the SMO and MDM Algorithms for SVM Training
Jose R. Dorronsoro, Alvaro Barbero, Jorge Lopez
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11:00Support Vector Machines, Data Reduction, and Approximate Kernel Matrices
XuanLong Nguyen, Ling Huang, Anthony D. Joseph
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11:20Catenary Support Vector Machines
Kin Fai Kan, Christian R. Shelton
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11:40Assessing Nonlinear Granger Causality from Multivariate Time Series
Xiaohai Sun
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Mining Sequences and Streams

Wednesday 17 September
10:40 - 12:00
Location: R002

Session chair: Jean-Francois Boulicaut


10:40A Case Study in Sequential Pattern Mining for IT-Operational Risk
Valerio Grossi, Andrea Romei, Salvatore Ruggieri
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11:00Mining Conjunctive Sequential Patterns
Chedy Raissi, Toon Calders, Pascal Poncelet
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11:20StreamKrimp: Detecting Change in Data Streams
Matthijs van Leeuwen, Arno Siebes
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11:40Two heads better than one: Pattern Discovery in Time-evolving Multi-Aspect Data
Jimeng Sun, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis, Evan Hoke, Christos Faloutsos
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Industrial Session 1

Wednesday 17 September
10:40 - 12:00
Location: R014

Session chair: Marco Saerens


10:40Fraud Risk Management in Practice
Serge Waterschoot, Security - Atos Worldline SA/NV
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11:20From Yale to RapidMiner: A Guide on How to Live on Free Data Mining Software
Ingo Mierswa, Rapid-I GmbH
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Demo 1

Wednesday 17 September
10:40 - 12:00
Location: R012

10:40SEDiL: Software for Edit Distance Learning
Laurent Boyer, Yann Esposito, Amaury Habrard, Jose Oncina, Marc Sebban
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Demo 2

Wednesday 17 September
10:40 - 12:00
Location: R013

10:40A Visualization-Based Exploratory Technique for Classifier Comparison with respect to Multiple Metrics and Multiple Domains
Rocio Alaiz-Rodriguez, Nathalie Japkowicz, Peter Tischer
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Classifier Evaluation

Wednesday 17 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R001

Session chair: Johannes Fürnkranz


14:00A Critical Analysis of Variants of the AUC
Stijn Vanderlooy, Eyke Huellermeier
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14:20A Projection-Based Framework for Classifier Performance Evaluation
Nathalie Japkowicz, Pritika Sanghi, Peter Tischer
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14:40Combining Classifiers through Triplet-based Belief Functions
Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Xuhui Shen, Pan Xiong
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15:00Proper Model Selection with Significance Test
Jin Huang, Charles X. Ling, Harry Zhang, Stan Matwin
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Clustering 1

Wednesday 17 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R002

Session chair: Andreas Hotho


14:00Unsupervised Riemannian Clustering of Probability Density Functions
Alvina Goh, René Vidal
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14:20Hierarchical Distance-based Conceptual Clustering
Ana Maria Funes, Cesar Ferri, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Maria Jose Ramirez-Quintana
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14:40Clustering via Local Regression
Jun Sun, Zhiyong Shen, Hui Li, Yidong Shen
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15:00Parallel Spectral Clustering
Yangqiu Song, Wen-Yen Chen, Hongjie Bai, Chih-Jen Lin, Edward Y. Chang
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Industrial Session 2

Wednesday 17 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R014

Session chair: Alejandro Jaimes Larrarte


14:00Machine Learning Considered Effective for Commercial Document Understanding Systems
Jakub Zavrel, Textkernel BV
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14:40Semantic Unification in a Real-World Data Flow for Delivering Business Intelligence
Bart Naudts, MDC Partners CVBA, Belgium
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Demo 3

Wednesday 17 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R012

14:00Monitoring Patterns through an Integrated Management and Mining Tool
Evangelos E. Kotsifakos, Irene Ntoutsi, Yannis Vrahoritis, Yannis Theodoridis
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Demo 4

Wednesday 17 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R013

14:00SINDBAD and SiQL: An Inductive Database and Query Language in the Relational Model
Jörg Wicker, Lothar Richter, Kristina Kessler, Stefan Kramer
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Regression

Wednesday 17 September
16:00 - 17:20
Location: R001

Session chair: Tobias Scheffer


16:00Pool-based Agnostic Experiment Design in Linear Regression
Masashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Nakajima
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16:20Learning to Predict One or More Ranks in Ordinal Regression Tasks
Jaime Alonso, Juan José Del Coz, Jorge Díez, Oscar Luaces, Antonio Bahamonde
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16:40Nonstationary Gaussian Process Regression using Point Estimates of Local Smoothness
Christian Plagemann, Kristian Kersting, Wolfram Burgard
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17:00Learning with $L_{q<1}$ vs $L_1$-norm regularisation with exponentially many irrelevant features
Ata Kaban, Robert Durrant
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Classification 2

Wednesday 17 September
16:00 - 17:20
Location: R002

Session chair: Hendrik Blockeel


16:00Learning Decision Trees for Unbalanced Data
David A. Cieslak, Nitesh V. Chawla
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16:20One-class Classification by Combining Density and Class Probability Estimation
Kathryn Hempstalk, Eibe Frank, Ian H. Witten
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16:40Ranking the Uniformity of Interval Pairs
Jussi Kujala, Tapio Elomaa
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17:00An Improved Multi-task Learning Approach with Applications in Medical Diagnosis
Jinbo Bi, Tao Xiong, Shipeng Yu, Murat Dundar, Bharat Rao
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Industrial Session 3

Wednesday 17 September
16:00 - 17:20
Location: R014

Session chair: Marko Grobelnik


16:00Using Data Mining to Successfully Conquer Foreign Markets: A Real Case Study
Thierry Van de Merckt, VADIS Consulting SA/NV
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16:40Mining for Learning in European Research
Walter Van de Velde, European Commission
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Demo 5

Wednesday 17 September
16:00 - 17:20
Location: R012

16:00A Knowledge-based Digital Dashboard for Higher Learning Institutions
Wan Maseri B. Wan Mohd, Abdullah B. Embong, Jasni B. Mohd Zain
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Demo 6

Wednesday 17 September
16:00 - 17:20
Location: R013

16:00Pleiades: Subspace Clustering and Evaluation
Ira Assent, Emmanuel Muller, Ralph Krieger, Timm Jansen, Thomas Seidl
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Guided Tour through the Historic City Center of Antwerp

Wednesday 17 September
17:20 - 19:00
Location: Antwerp

The tour guides will pick up participants at the entrance of the R building. Groups of 20 people leave the campus as of 17:20. The tour ends at the Grand Cafe Horta, where the banquet takes place.

Diamond Cocktail & Banquet

Wednesday 17 September
19:00 - ?
Location: Grand Cafe Horta