Knowledge and Data Engineering Group

Advanced Courses for Spring 2002:

• CS 295: Pattern Recognition
• CS 295/331: Advanced Topics in Database and Knowledge Base Systems
• CS 295/395: Data Mining
• EE 274: Introduction to Wavelets and Filter Banks

Seminars and Conferences:

• The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2001)

Faculty:

• Byung S. Lee, Coordinator, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Research Interests: Data management, database systems. E-mail: bslee@cs.uvm.edu.
• Gagan Mirchandani, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Research Interests: Data compression, image processing, multi-resolution analysis, wavelets. E-mail: mirchand@emba.uvm.edu.
• Robert R. Snapp, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics. Research Interests: Pattern recognition, machine learning, neural networks, information geometry. E-mail: snapp@cs.uvm.edu.
• Xindong Wu, Professor of Computer Science. Research Interests: Data mining and knowledge discovery, knowledge-based systems, electronic commerce, software engineering. E-mail: xwu@cs.uvm.edu.

Graduate Students:

• Li Chen, Computer Science. Thesis topic: QoS Multicast Routing and Protection Planning in Optical Networks.
• Jiangyan He, Computer Science. Thesis topic: Scalability study of queries on scientific simulation data.
• Songtao Jiang, Computer Science. Thesis topic: TBA.
• Ji Yu, Statistics. Thesis topic: Convergence and Metric Properties of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers.
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Former Students:

• Ross Deming, M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Thesis: Neural networks for selective edge detection, 1993.
• Vinod Kannoth, M.S. in Computer Science, Thesis: Modeling the execution costs of user-defined functions in an object-relational database management system, 2001.
• Gabriel J. Kontrovitz, M.S. in Computer Science. Thesis: Real-time, three-dimensional, line-art rendering, 2000.
• Chaoyu Jin, M.S in Electrical Engineering. Thesis: The dependence of the approximation error on the sample size on the sample size for feed-forward neural networks, 1997.
• Xianguan Li, M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Thesis: Controlling traffic signals at isolated intersections using Q-Learning, 1997.
• Alessandro M. Palau, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Dissertation: Implementing nearest neighbor classifiers, 1997.
• Tong Xu, M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Thesis: Estimating the infinite-sample risk of k nearest neighbor classifiers, 1995.

• Analysis of Functional Protein Interactions in Drosophila Flight Muscles Through the Study of Mutant Proteomes, DOE EPSCoR Computational Biology Pilot Project Award, PI: Jim Vigoreaux (Department of Biology), Co-PI: Xindong Wu.

• Data Science Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Database Group, Advanced Information Technology Research Laboratory

Journals:

• Byung S. Lee, Robert R. Snapp, Ron Musick, and Terrence Critchlow, "Metadata models for ad hoc queries on tera-byte scale scientific simulations," Submitted, 2001.
• Robert R. Snapp and Santosh S. Venkatesh, "Asymptotic exampansions of the k nearest neighbor risk," Annals of Statistics, vol. 26 no. 3, pp. 850-878, 1998.
• X Wu and S Zhang, "Synthesizing High-Frequency Rules from Different Data Sources," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, accepted, forthcoming.

Conference proceedings:

• Ghaleb Abdulla, Chuck Baldwin, Terence Critchlow, Roy Kamimura, Ida Lozares, Ron Musick, Nu Ai Tang, Byung S. Lee, and Robert R. Snapp, "Approximate Ad-hoc Query Engine for Simulation Data," Proc. the First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, June, 2001, pp. 255-256.
• Byung S. Lee, Robert R. Snapp, Ron Musick, and Terence Critchlow, "Ad hoc Query Support for Very Large Scientific Data: the Metadata Approach," Proc. the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Databases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 1-3, 2001.
• Byung S. Lee, Robert R. Snapp, and Ron Musick, "Toward a Query Language on Simulation Mesh Data: an Object-oriented Approach," Proc. the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Hong Kong, April 2001, pp. 242-249.
• R Relue, X Wu, and H Huang, "Efficient Runtime Generation of Association Rules," Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Doubletree Hotel Atlanta-Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 5-10, 2001, pp. 466-473.
• Robert R. Snapp, "Local polynomial metrics for k nearest neigbhor classifiers," Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Modelling Uncertainty in Geometric Computation, Kluwer.

Technical reports:

• Byung S. Lee, Robert Snapp, and Ron Musick, Ad hoc Query Support for Very Large Scientific Data: the Metadata Approach, Technical Report UCRL-JC-138481, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. April 2000.