DMIN'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:00 - 01:20pm:  Welcome and Introduction (by DMIN'08 Co-Chairs)

SESSION 1-DMIN:   OBJECT AND NOVELTY DETECTION (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 01:00pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 1)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Data Mining For Outlier with Minimum Vector Variance
                  Dyah Erny Herwindiati, Ery Dewajani

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Detecting Outliers in High-Dimensional Datasets with Mixed Attributes
                  Anna Koufakou, Michael Georgiopoulos, and Georgios Anagnostopoulos
                  University of Central Florida, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Naive Bayes Classifier for Extracting Bibliographic Information
                  from Biomedical Online Articles
                  Jongwoo Kim, Daniel X. Le, and George R. Thoma
                  National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA


02:20 - 02:40pm:  FREE SLOT

02:40 - 03:00pm:  FREE SLOT

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-DMIN:   FORECASTING AND TIME SERIES MODELLING (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 1)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Music Visualization with DISC and Structural Feature Diagram
                  Ya-Hung Tseng and Jia-Lien Hsu
                  Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Text Mining Post Project Reviews to Improve the Construction
                  Project Supply Chain Design
                  Alok Choudhary, Jenny Harding, Patricia Carrillo, and Paul Oluikpe
                  Loughborough University, United Kingdom

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Default ARTMAP Neural Networks for Classification of Anthrax
                  Time Series from Inhalation Anthrax Models
                  Rui Xu, Robert Woodley, and Donald Wunsch
                  Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Case Based Reasoning Models to Predict Final Sales: A Test
                  of Railway Passenger Arrivals
                  Tsung-Hsien Tsai
                  Cornell University, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Neuro-Fuzzy Models in Real-Time Flood Forecasting
                  Dawei Han
                  University of Bristol, United Kingdom

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Weight Initialization of Gaussian Neural Networks for Conditional
                  Mean and Variance Forecasts
                  Porntip Dechpichai and Pamela Davy
                  University of Wollongong, Australia

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Forecasting Vertical Acceleration of Railway Wagons - A Comparative Study
                  GM Shafiullah, Scott Simson, Adam Thompson, Shawkat Ali, and Peter Wolfs
                  Central Queensland University, Australia

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Forecasting High-Frequency Time Series with Neural Networks - An
                  Analysis of Modelling Challenges
                  Sven Crone and Nikolaos Kourentzes
                  Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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