Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval


Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia

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Intelligent agents for data mining and information retrieval / Masoud Mohammadian, editor.
p. cm.

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1. Database management. 2. Data mining. 3. Intelligent agents
(Computer software). I. Mohammadian, Masoud.
QA76.9.D3I5482 2004
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About the Authors

Masoud Mohammadian has completed his bachelor's, master's and PhD in Computer Science. His research interests lie in intelligent agents, adaptive self-learning systems, fuzzy logic genetic algorithms, neural networks and their applications in robotics , control, and industrial automation, and financial and business problems which involve real-time data processing, planning and decision making. He is a member of more than 30 international conferences, and he has chaired several international conferences on intelligent systems and computational intelligence. He is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Computing at the University of Canberra in Australia. He is a member of many professional (computing and engineering) organizations. He is also currently the vice chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) ACT section.

Yasser Abdelhamid is a lecturer at the Institute of Statistical Studies & Research (ISSR), Cairo University, as well as a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (Egypt). Dr. Abdelhamid obtained his PhD from ISSR, with his research point being to build large-scale knowledge-based systems (KBS) from reusable knowledge components . His research interests include knowledge sharing and reuse, knowledge level modelling, library-driven KBS development, and software reuse.

R. Abi-Aad obtained his Bachelor of Computer Science from the Universit du Qu bec   Trois-Rivi res (1998). While completing his bachelor's degree, he twice won the Desjardins Foundation excellence award, chosen from among 260 candidates from nine universities. He got his master's degree in 2001 from Concordia University (Canada), under the supervision of Dr. Radhakrishnan. During his master's, he concentrated on user models, participated in many publications , won several awards, and became actively involved in the CITR project (Enabling Technologies for E-commerce) as the implementation team's main coordinator , collaborating with eight universities. In his secret nocturnal identity, Rony plays guitar, sings, and performs in bars. He also conducts a choir of 40 wonderful kids at St. John's primary school in Montreal.

Ignacio Aedo has a degree and a PhD in Computer Science from Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 1991, he has been a lecturer at the University Carlos III in Madrid (Spain). His interests mainly focus on topics such as hypermedia, media integration systems, electronic books, electronic document systems, development methodology, and knowledge representation systems. In 1990, he started his research activity in the field of hypermedia systems, in which he is still involved.

Ricardo Aler is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University Carlos III, Spain. He has done research in several areas, including automatic control knowledge learning, genetic programming, and machine learning. He has also participated in international projects about automatic machine translation and optimizing industry processes. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) and an MSc in Decision Support Systems for Industry from Sunderland University (UK). He graduated in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

A. Andreevskaia graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia, with a master's degree in Applied Linguistics. She continued her research at Moscow State University, looking into statistical methods in natural language analysis and processing. Three years later, she completed her PhD. In 2003, she obtained a master's degree in Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. T. Radhakrishnan. She has won several major awards, including a NSERC scholarship in 2002. A. Andreevskaia is currently enrolled in the PhD program in the same University. Her interests include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interactions, user modelling, and knowledge-based systems.

T. Beran has been at the Czech Technical University in Prague since 1992 (Czech Republic). He studied computer languages and translations in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. During his studies, he worked for a company, where he developed banking applications. He finished his MSc in 1999. In his diploma thesis, he focused on the problem of optical recognition of scanned music sheets. After finishing his MSc, he began working toward a PhD at the same university and department. He has researched applications of binary neural networks for text processing tasks .

David Camacho is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) (Spain). He is member of the Complex and Adaptive Systems Group (SCALab) at this university. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). He has a BSc in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has done research in several areas, including multi-agent systems, planning, information gathering, and fuzzy logic. He has also participated in international projects about automatic machine translation and optimizing industry processes.

Rowena Chau obtained a Master of Business Systems from the School of Business Systems of Monash University (Australia) in 1996, followed by a PhD in 2002. She joined the School of Business Systems as an Assistant Lecturer in 1996. Her current appointment is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Her research interests include web content mining, multilingual information retrieval, soft computing, and computational intelligence.

Y.M. Chen is a research student at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests involve e-learning systems, mobile agent applications, intelligent systems, text mining, and Java technology. He was a master's student of Dr. Jon Quah.

Juan Cuadrado is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) (Spain). He is member of the Complex and Adaptive Systems Group (SCALab) at this university. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is working in several research areas, including multi-agent systems, learning, and information gathering, webmapping and image processing.

Xiaotie Deng received the BS from Qinghua University, Beijing, China (1982), an MS from the Institute of Systems Sciences, Academic Sinica, Beijing (1984), and a PhD from Stanford University, Stanford, California in September 1989. He is currently a professor at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include algorithms and complexity, and combinatorial optimization.

Paloma D ­az has a degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). She is lecturer at the University Carlos III of Madrid, and she is the head of the ARCADE research group of the Computer Science Department, which is involved in areas concerning interactive systems, security issues, operating systems, and distributed systems. Within this group, her research work is done in the DEI Laboratory. Her interests mainly concern topics such as hypermedia, electronic document systems, CASE, software development methodology, and formal models for representing information. She is also interested in applying new technologies in education. She is a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Learning Technology Task Force.

Juan Manuel Dodero has worked as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) since 1999. He received his degree in Computer Science and MSc in Knowledge Engineering, both at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University Carlos III. He had prior expertise as an object technology consultant and R&D engineer for Spanish companies. His research interests include technologies to support education and learning, knowledge management, computer-supported cooperative work, and multiagent systems.

Juli n Dorado is a professor in the Department of Information and Communications Technologies of the University of A Coru ±a, Spain. He finished his graduate in Computers in 1994 and began his PhD. In 1999, he became a Doctor, with a special mention of European Doctor. He has worked as a teacher at the university for more than six years. He has published many books and papers in several journals. He is currently working on evolutionary computing, artificial neural networks, computer graphics, and data mining.

Samhaa R. El-Baltagy is researcher at the Egyptian Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems. She also teaches at Cairo University. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in the UK, with the focus of her research being on the development of a multiagent framework for navigation assistance and information finding in context. Her research interests include agent and multi-agent systems and frameworks, adaptive hypermedia, distributed information management, and knowledge-based systems.

Qizhi Fang received her BS and MS degrees from Shandong University, China, in 1988 and 1991, and a PhD from the Institute of Systems Sciences, Academic Sinica, Beijing, China in 2000. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Qingdao Ocean University, Qingdao, China. Her research interests include algorithms and complexity, and combinatorial optimization.

Tetsuo Hasegawa received a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University in 1985 and completed an ME program in 1987. Subsequently, he joined Toshiba Corporation (Japan), and currently works in the Knowledge Media Laboratory, Corporate Research and Development Center. His research interests include distributed autonomous systems and software agent technology. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Maolin Huang is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). His current research covers the ares of information visualization, software engineering and information retrieval. In the past seven years, Dr. Huang has published 50 referred journals and conference papers. His work has been well recognized by the international research community. His earlier research work has shown its large potential value and has been sold and build into the commercial software SimplyObjects, developed by Adaptive Arts Pty Limited. Dr. Huang also served as a PC member and session chair for many conferences and as a reviewer for some well-known journals.

Ric Jentzsch is a senior lecturer in Information Systems and Technology at the University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia. He has lectured in the USA, Canada, Australia, and several Asian countries . He has more than 25 years of industry experience in information technology, business management, and consulting. Dr. Jentzsch has 34 publications in management and information technology. He has been an invited speaker at conferences, seminars , and universities. His current research interests include electronic business, intelligent agents, small to medium enterprises , and application of evolving and maturing technologies.

Ka s Khrouf is currently a PhD student at IRIT Laboratory, Toulouse. He obtained his master's degree from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (2000) (France). His research interests include data and textual warehouses, information retrieval, advanced databases, query languages, ordered tree comparison, etc. He is the author of several articles in his subjects of interest.

Jin Sung Kim is an assistant professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of intelligent decision support systems, especially in how information technologies support and enable effective decision making. In previous years, he has taught Systems Analysis and Design, Database Management, Internet Business, Management Information Systems, Data Analysis and Decision Support. Currently, he has responsibility for the Introduction to Management Information Systems, CGI programming, and Internet Business Modelling for business students for the BA program. Specific areas of research interest are the web-based decision support systems, negotiation support systems, the knowledge management practices of large organizations, data mining, and the development of intelligent systems to support multipurpose problem solving. He is specifically interested in exploring what "knowledge" is for large organizations, how it is created, how it is managed, and how it affects management action. Jin Sung Kim completed a PhD at the SungKyunKwan University, where he developed ˜ causal knowledge-based negotiation support systems to mediate the suppliers and buyers simultaneously . He has a Master of Business Administration from the SungKyunKwan University. He has much experience in assessing how to develop the effectiveness of information systems, especially through the use of information technology. He has been involved in strategic planning, forecasting, web-based information systems development, management education, project management, research model analysis and development, and information systems design, policy and procedure development. He has had significant experience in technology assessment for artificial intelligence-based decision making. He also has experience sitting on the Boards of Directors of Korea Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Society.

Koichi Kurumatani received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1989. He worked for Electrotechnical Laboratory from 1989 to 2001. He has been conducting the CONSORTS project as multi-agent team leader, CARC, AIST (Japan) after 2001. The goal of the CONSORTS project is to provide multiagent architecture for a ubiquitous computing environment and to provide a framework for mass user support that is socially coordinated among mass users or in society. His research interests are in software agents, multi-agent, ubiquitous computing, social coordination, and market and auction mechanism.

Wei Lai is a senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He received his PhD from the University of Newcastle in 1993. His research interestes are software engineering, Internet and Web applications, user interfaces, and information visualization. He has published more than 60 papers in these areas.

C.H. Leow is currently a lecturer with the School of Business at Singapore Polytechnic. She has lectured in subjects including Retail Environment and Technology, Organizational Management, Management and Organizational Behavior, and Services Marketing. Ms. Leow has assisted in several key projects with retailers in Singapore in the area of successful business strategies. Her key area of research is business- related and technology applications for educational institutions and businesses. Prior to joining the Polytechnic, Ms. Leow worked for many years in the marketing and retailing practice with local and international companies, providing technical and professional advice to retailers and commercial companies. Ms. Leow is also a certified Casetrust auditor in Singapore.

T. Macek received his MSc from the Czech Technical University (Czech Republic), Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1990. He received his PhD in 1998 at the same university. In his research work, he focused on pattern recognition, neural networks text processing, and parallel systems. He spent several years teaching, focusing particularly on distance learning and other modern teaching technologies. In the past, he worked both in academia and industry.

Shinichi Nagano received his ME and PhD in Computer Engineering from Osaka University, Japan (1996, 1999, respectively). In 1999, he joined Toshiba Corporation (Japan), and currently works at the company's Knowledge Media Laboratory, Corporate Research and Development Center. His research interests include software agent technology, XML web services, and formal verification. He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (IEICE), and the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

Akihiko Ohsuga received a BSc in Mathematics from Sophia University (1981) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University (1995). He joined Toshiba Corporation (Japan) in 1981. From 1985 to 1989, he worked with ICOT (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology), involved in the Fifth Generation Computer System project. He is currently a senior research scientist at Toshiba's Knowledge Media Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center. He is also a visiting Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Systems, the University of Electro-Communications. His research interests include agent technologies, formal specification and verification, and automated theorem proving. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. He received the 1986 Paper Award from the IPSJ.

Alejandro Pazos Sierra is a professor in the Department of Information and Communications Technologies of the University of A Coru ±a, Spain. In 1987, he finished his graduate studies in Medicine and General Surgery at the University of Santiago. In 1989, he got the title of Master in Knowledge Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 1990, he became a Doctor of Computer Science and, in 1996, Doctor of Medicine. He has headed many research projects and published many papers and books, in areas such as medicine, knowledge engineering, artificial neural networks, expert systems, etc.

Nieves Pedreira is an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Communications Technologies of the University of A Coru ±a, Spain. She received a degree in Computer Science from the University of A Coru ±a in 1993. This was followed by a master's degree in Communications and Real Time Systems. After having worked in private enterprises, she returned to the University in 1997 as a PhD student and, currently, she is working on her thesis. She is also a tutor in the UNED (Distance Education National University) since 1998. Her research interests focus on distance learning and new technologies.

Jon T.S. Quah is currently an assistant professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Quah lectures in both undergrad as well as graduate courses such as Software Development Methodology, Software Quality Assurance and Project Management, Object-oriented System Analysis and Design, and Software Engineering. His research interests include financial market modelling using neural network, software reliability, and Internet-related topics such as e-commerce and e-learning. Other than academic services, Dr. Quah has undertaken joint projects with major companies in the banking and airline industries, as well as with the statutory boards of the government body. Prior to his academic pursuit, Dr. Quah was a director of a local company dealing with industrial chemicals.

Juan R. Rabu ±al is an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Communications Technologies of the University of A Coru ±a, Spain. He finished his studies of Computer Engineering in 1996 and, in 2002, he became a PhD in Computer Science with his thesis "Methodology for the Development of Knowledge Extraction Systems in ANNs". He has been a member of several Spanish and European projects, and he has published many books and papers in several international journals. He is working on evolutionary computing, artificial neural networks, and knowledge extraction systems.

T. Radhakrishnan graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Since 1975, he has been working in the Computer Science Department at Concordia University, Canada. He is currently working as a professor and chair of the department. His interests are in human computer interactions, agent-based software systems, and multi-agent architectures. He has supervised well over 60 master's and doctoral theses in the past 28 years. He is a co-author of two computer science text books that are popular in India, and he holds two patents.

Ahmed Rafea is a professor of Computer Science at the American University in Cairo. He is also the supervisor of the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems, Egypt. Dr. Rafea obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Universitee Paul Sabatier in France. Since his graduation, he has worked at Cairo University, where he chaired the Computer Science Department, San Diego State University, and the American University in Cairo. His main research interests are in knowledge engineering, knowledge discovery in database, intelligent information systems, and natural language processing.

Daniel Rivero was born in 1978 in A Coru ±a, Spain. In 1996, he began his studies of Computer Engineering, and he finished them in 2001. After that, he began his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He has published several papers at international conferences and in journals on evolutionary computation, signal processing, image processing, artificial neural networks, and so on. He is working in the RNASA (Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems) Lab at the University of A Coru ±a.

Chantal Soul -Dupuy is currently a professor at Toulouse I University and research manager at IRIT Laboratory (SIG team), Toulouse. She obtained her PhD from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (1990). She supervises a master's degree program at Toulouse I University, France. Her current research interests include information retrieval and filtering, neural networks, data mining, information systems, personalization, document warehouses, etc. She has published several research papers in her areas of interest. She is involved as a member of the program/organizing committees for a number of national and international conferences.

A. Stafylopatis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1956. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1979 from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) and the Docteur Ingenieur degree in Computer Science in 1982 from the University of Paris -Sud, Orsay, France. Since 1984, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include neural networks, computational intelligence, parallel processing, and high-performance computing.

Yasuyuki Tahara received his BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo, Japan (1989 and 1991, respectively). He joined Toshiba Corporation (Japan) in 1991 and currently works at the company's Knowledge Media Laboratory, Research and Development Center. His research interests include software agent technology and software engineering, with particular reference to mobile agents and formal specification languages and methodologies. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan and the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology.

S. Vrettos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1974. He received his Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999 from the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A) in 1999. He is now a doctoral candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include machine learning, fuzzy reasoning, and information retrieval.

Hui Yang is currently a PhD student at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She received her bachelor's degree in Electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1993, and a master's degree in Computer Science from Hubei University, China, in 1999. Her research topic is the methodologies and techniques of distributed informational retrieval on the Internet.

Chung-Hsing Yeh is currently an associate professor at the School of Business Systems at Monash University, Australia. He holds a BSc and an MMgmtSc from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and a PhD in Information Systems from Monash University. His research interests include multilingual information processing, multicriteria decision analysis, fuzzy logic applications, operations scheduling and management, and transport systems planning.

Kang Zhang is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He received his BEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology in China (1982), and a PhD from the University of Brighton in the UK (1990). He has held academin positions in China, the UK, Australia and the USA. Dr. Zhang's research interests are in the areas of software engineering, visual programming and Internet computing. He has published more than 120 papers in these areas. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of IEEE.

Minjie Zhang is an associate professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She received her BSc from Fudan University, China, in 1982, and received her PhD from the University of New England, Australia, in 1996. She is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ISCA. She is the author or co-author of more than 40 research papers. Her research interests include distributed artificial intelligence, distributed information retrieval, and agent-based software engineering.

Weimin Zheng received his BS and MS from Qinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1970 and 1982, respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua Universtiy, China. His major research interests include parallel/distributed and cluster computing, compiler techniques and runtime system design for parallel processing systems.

Shanfeng Zhu is a research associate in the Department of System Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Wuhan University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and a PhD in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2003. His research interests include information retrieval on the Web, recommender systems in e-commerce.




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