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Finalists Announcement for 2020 INFORMS Data Mining Section Best Paper Competition

  • 1.  Finalists Announcement for 2020 INFORMS Data Mining Section Best Paper Competition

    Posted 11-04-2020 21:00

    Dear INFORMS Community Members: 

    As INFORMS Data Mining Section "Best Paper Competition Organizing Committee", we are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Competition. Congratulations to all! We received more than 40 high-quality papers. Based on the reviewers' inputs, four finalists were selected in the Student Track, and four finalists were selected in the General Track:  

    General Track Finalists:

    Title: Optimal Shape Control via L-infinity Loss for Composite Fuselage Assembly
    Authors: Juan Du,  Shanshan Cao, Jeffrey Hunt, Xiaoming Huo, Jan Shi

    Title: Large-Scale Graph Analytics for Anomaly Detection in Sensor-Intensive Heterogeneous Networks
    Authors: Ramin Moghaddass, Yongtao Guan

    Title: Synthetic Average Neighborhood Sampling Algorithm (SANSA): A Neighborhood Informed Synthetic Sample Placement Approach to Improve Learning from Imbalanced Data
    Authors: Murtaza Nasir, Ali Dag, Serhat Simsek, Asil Oztekin

    Title: Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters
    Authors: Bora Keskin, Yuexing Li,  Nur Sunar

    General Track Finalists will present their studies in Session SA05 (01:15 PM - 02:30 PM, 11/08/2020 Virtual Room 05)

    Student Track Finalists: 

    Title: Thompson Sampling based Partially Observable Online Change Detection via Bayesian Spike-Slab Composite Decomposition
    Authors: Jie Guo,  Hao Yan, Steven Hoi, Chen Zhang 

    Title: Individualized Passenger Travel Pattern Multi-Clustering based on Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Graph Structure
    Authors: Ziyue Li,  Fugee Tsung, Hao Yan,  Chen Zhang

    Title: Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Sparse PCA
    Authors: Yongchun Li, Weijun Xie

    Title: APIK: A Physics-Informed Kriging Model with Partial Differential Equations
    Authors: Jialei Chen, Zhehui Chen, Chuck Zhang, Jeff Wu

    Student Track Finalists will present their studies in Session SA04 (01:15 PM - 02:30 PM, 11/08/2020 Virtual Room 04)

    For each track, we will have a panel of judges to select the best paper on November 8th during the 2020 INFORMS Virtual Conference. Congratulations to the finalists!  Thanks to the referees for their time and efforts in review! 

    We are looking forward to seeing you at INFORMS annual conference soon! 

    Sincerely,  
    2020 INFORMS Data Mining Section Best Paper Organizing Committee

    Evangelos Triantaphyllou - Professor, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Louisiana State University

    Shouyi Wang - Associate Professor, Department of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington

    Xiaowei Yue - Assistant Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech





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    Shouyi Wang
    Associate Professor
    Department of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering
    The University of Texas at Arlington
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