Wednesday, 29 November, 2006

09:00 - 09:05 Opening and Welcome

09:05 - 10:05 INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Tom Osborn, Thought Experiments 'The less trodden path to data mining opportunities'

10:05 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30 Session 1: Professional Challenges

10:30 - 11:00 SAFELY DELEGATING DATA MINING TASKS,
Ling Qiu, Kok-Leong Ong, Siu Man Lui

11:00 - 11: 30 DATA MINING METHODOLOGICAL WEAKNESSES AND SUGGESTED FIXES,
John Maindonald

11:30 - 12: 00 ACCURACY ESTIMATION WITH CLUSTERED DATASET,
Ricco Rakotomalala, Jean-Hughes Chauchat, François Pellegrino

12:00 - 12:30 TOWARDS AUTOMATED RECORD LINKAGE,
Karl Goiser, Peter Christen

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Inna Kolyshkina, IAPA, "Update about IAPA matters"

INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Warwick Graco, ATO 'Some Challenges in Knowledge Discovery'

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:00 Session 2: Health Data Mining

15:00 - 15:30 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLASSIFICATION METHODS FOR MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS,
Hong Hu, Jiuyong Li, Ashley Plank, Hua Wang, Grant Daggard

15:30 - 16:00 DATA MINING IN CONCEPTUALISING ACTIVE AGEING,
Richi Nayak, Laurie Buys, Jan Lovie-Kitchins

16:00 - 16:30 ANALYSIS OF BREAST FEEDING DATA USING DATA MINING METHODS,
Hongxing He, Huidong Jin, Jie Chen, Damien McAullay, Jiuyong Li, Tony Fallon

16:30 - 17:00 USING A KERNEL-BASED APPROACH TO VISUALIZE INTEGRATED CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME DATASETS,
Ahmad Al-Oqaily , Paul Kennedy

15:00 - 17:00 Session 3: Scientific Data Mining

15:00 - 15:30 ANALYZING HARMONIC MONITORING DATA USING DATA MINING,
Ali Asheibi, David Stirling, Danny Soetanto

15:30 - 16:00 DISCOVER KNOWLEDGE FROM DISTRIBUTION MAPS USING BAYESIAN NETWORKS,
Norazwin Buang, Nianjun Liu, Terry Caelli, Rob Lesslie, Michael J Hill

16:00 - 16:30 DATA MINING FOR LIFETIME PREDICTION OF METALLIC COMPONENTS,
Esther Ge, Richi Nayak, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li

Thursday, 30 November, 2006

09:00 - 10:00 INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Jolie Baasch, Credit Corp Group Limited 'Data Mining: Bridging the Gap between Research and Deployment'

10:05 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30 Session 4: Text Mining

10:30 - 11:00 INTEGRATED SCORING FOR SPELLING ERROR CORRECTION, ABBREVIATION EXPANSION AND CASE RESTORATION IN DIRTY TEXT,
Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun

11:00 - 11:30 A STUDY OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES IN TEXT CATEGORIZATION,
Nayer Wanas, Dina Said, Nevin Darwish, Nadia Hegazy

11:30 - 12:00 A CHARACTERIZATION OF WORDNET FEATURES IN BOOLEAN MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION,
Trevor Mansuy, Robert Hilderman

12:00 - 12:30 WEIGHTED KERNEL MODEL FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION,
Lei Zhang, Debbie Zhang, Simeon Simoff, John Debenham

10:30 - 12:30 Session 5: Algorithms

10:30 - 11:00 VISUALIZATION OF ATTRACTIVE AND REPULSIVE ZONES BETWEEN VARIABLES,
Sylvie Guillaume, Leïla Nemmiche Alachaher

11:00 - 11:30 ON THE OPTIMAL WORKING SET SIZE IN SERIAL AND PARALLEL SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE LEARNING WITH THE DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM,
Tatjana Eitrich, Bruno Lang

11:30 - 12: 00 MARKING TIME IN SEQUENCE MINING,
Carl Mooney, John Roddick

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Paul Beinat, NeuronWorks Pty. Ltd. Incremental Improvement in Regression using Insurance Data

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:00 Session 6: Financial Data Mining

15:00 - 15:30 DISCOVERING DEBTOR PATTERNS OF CENTRELINK CUSTOMERS,
Yanchang Zhao, Longbing Cao, Yvonne Morrow, Yuming Ou, Jiarui Ni, Chengqi Zhang

15:30 - 16:00 WHAT TYPES OF EVENTS PROVIDE THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE THAT THE STOCK MARKET IS AFFECTED BY COMPANY SPECIFIC NEWS?
Calum Robertson, Shlomo Geva, Rodney Wolff

16:00 - 16:30 INVESTIGATING THE SIZE AND VALUE EFFECT IN DETERMINING PERFORMANCE OF AUSTRALIAN LISTED COMPANIES: A NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH,
Justin Luu, Paul Kennedy

15:00 - 17:00 Session 7: Web Mining

15:00 - 15:30 EXTRACTION OF FLAT AND NESTED DATA RECORDS FROM WEB PAGES,
Siddu P. Algur, P. S. Hiremath

15:30 - 16:00 TRACKING THE CHANGES OF DYNAMIC WEB PAGES IN THE EXISTENCE OF URL REWRITING,
Ping-Jer Yeh, Jie-Tsung Li, Shyan-Ming Yuan

16:00 - 16:30 A FRAMEWORK OF COMBINING MARKOV MODEL WITH ASSOCIATION RULES FOR PREDICTING WEB PAGE ACCESSES,
Faten Khalil, Jiuyong Li, Hua Wang

16:30 - 17:00 MODELING PROLIFERATION OF IDEAS IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS,
Muhammad Ahmad, Ankur Teredesai.

Further information from Peter Christen, Paul Kennedy, or Jiuyong (John) Li.