Accepted Papers (new!)

 Chengying Miao. An Effective Network Partitioning Algorithm Based on Two-Point Diffusing Strategy

 Dan Zhang and Luo Si. Multiple Instance Transfer Learning.

 Pritam Chanda, Aidong Zhang and Murali Ramanathan. Mining of Attribute Interactions Using Information Theoretic Matrics.

 Shuo Chen, Bin Liu, Mingjie Qian and Changshui Zhang. Kernel K-means Based Framework for Aggregate Outputs Classification.

 Ke Tang and Rui Wang. Feature Selection for Maximizing the Area Under the ROC Curve.

 Jana Nononicova, Petr Somol and Pavel Pudi. A New Stability Measure for Feature Selection Algorithms.

 Hongliang Fei, Brian Quanz and Jun Huan. GLSVM: Integrating Structured Feature Selection and Large Margin Classification.

 Mingjie Qian, Feiping Nie and Changshui Zhang. Probabilistic Labeled Semi-supervised SVM.

 Kunal Punera and Suju Rajan. Inproving Multilabel Classification in Hierarchical Taxonomies.

 Gregory Moore, Charles Bergeron and Kristin Bennett. Nonconvex Bilevel Programming for Hyperparameter Selection.

Workshop Description

Classical optimization techniques have found widespread use in solving traditional data mining problems, among which convex optimization has occupied the center-stage because of its elegant property of global optimum. Many problems can be casted into the convex optimization framework, such as Support Vector Machines, graph-based manifold learning, and clustering, which can usually be solved by convex Quadratic Programming, Semi-Definite Programming or Eigenvalue Decomposition.

 

As time goes by, new problems emerge constantly in data mining community, such as Time-Evolving Data Mining, On-Line Data Mining, Relational Data Mining and Transferred Data Mining. While at the same time fundamental problems such as classification and clustering continue to be better understand. Some of these recently emerged problems are more complex than traditional ones and are usually formulated as nonconvex problems. Therefore some general optimization methods, such as gradient descents, coordinate descents, convex relaxation, have come back to the stage and become more and more popular in recent years.

 

This workshop will present recent advances in optimization techniques for, especially new emerging, data mining problems, as well as the real-life applications among this community.One main goal of the workshop is to bring together leading

 

Topic Areas

Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

Methods and algorithms:

 Graph/Hypergraph based methods

 Matrix/Tensor based methods

 Kernel/graph kernel/structured kernel learning

 Large margin methods

 Large scale numerical optimization

 Randomized algorithms

 Sparse algorithms, compressive sensing

 Regularization techniques

 Theoretical advances

Application areas

 Collaborative filtering

 Genomics and Bioinformatics by fusing different information sources

 Information search and extraction from Web using different domain knowledge

 Scientific computing and computational sciences

 Sensor network

 Social information retrieval by fusing different information sources

 Social Networks analysis

 

Program Committee Members (Tentative)

 Ian Davidson, University of California, Davis

 Bin Gao, Microsoft Research Asia

 Heng Huang, University of Texas at Arlington

 Brian Kulis, University of California at Berkeley

 James Kwok, Hongkong University of Science and Technology

 Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China

 Dacheng Tao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 Fei Sha, University of Southern California

 Vikas Sindhwani, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab

 Masashi Sugiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology

 Jimeng Sun, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab

 Yangqiu Song, IBM Research China

 Gang Wang, Microsoft Research Asia

 Linli Xu, University of Alberta, Canada

 Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore

 Kai Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICDM 2009 Workshop on Optimization Based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM09)

Important Dates

07/17/09: Paper Submission

09/08/09: Paper Notification

09/28/09: Camera Ready Due

12/06/09: Workshop Date

Highlights

05/13/09: Webpage Kickoff

06/01/09: PC Members Pasted

 

Organizers

General Chairs

Chris Ding, University of    

Shi Yong, University of

Program Chairs

Tao Li, Florida International

Fei Wang, Florida International