Publications

(*Graduate Student, **Undergraduate Student)

2013
Crater Detection via Genetic Search Methods to Reduce Image Features

J. Cohen*, W. Ding, Advances in Space Research, 2013.

Constrained Stochastic Gradient Descent for Large-scale Least Squares Problem

Y. Mu*, W. Ding, T. Zhou, D. Tao, the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Chicago, USA, August, 2013.

Towards Long-Lead Forecasting of Extreme Flood Events: a Data Mining Framework for Precipitation Cluster Precursors Identification

D. Wang*, W. Ding, K. Yu, X. Wu, P. Chen, D. Small, S. Islam, the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Chicago, USA, August, 2013.

Online Group Feature Selection from Feature Streams

H. Li*, X. Wu, W. Ding, the 20th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, July, 2013

Discriminative Accelerometer Patterns in Children Physical Activities

Y. Mu*, H. Lo*, K. Amaral**, W. Ding, S. E. Crouter, the 3rd International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, Amherst, MA, June, 2013

Two-Tiered Machine Learning Model for Estimating Energy Expenditure in Children

K. Amaral**, Y. Mu*, H. Lo*, W. Ding, S. E. Crouter, the 3rd International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, Amherst, MA, June, 2013

PNFS: Personalized Web News Filtering and Summarization

X. Wu, F. Xie*, G. Wu, and W. Ding, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2013

Understanding the Spatial Distribution of Crime Based on Its Related Variables Using Geospatial Discriminative Pattern

D. Wang*, W. Ding, H. Lo, M. Morabito, P. Chen, J. Salazar, and T. Stepinski, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Elsevier, 2013

To Introduce Computer Science in One Day, The Throw Platform

J. P. Cohen*, W. Ding, D. Boisvert, the 3rd IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ, March, 2013

Local Discriminative Distance Metrics Ensemble Learning

Y. Mu*, W. Ding, D. Tao, The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society, Elsevier, to be published, 2013

Feature Selection by Joint Graph Sparse Coding

X. Zhu*, X. Wu, W. Ding, S. Zhang, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Austin, Texas, USA, May, 2013

2012
Crime Hotspot Mapping Using the Crime Related Factors--A Spatial Data Mining Approach

D. Wang*, W. Ding, H. Lo, T. Stepinski, J. Salazar, and M. Morabito, Applied Intelligence, Springer, 2012

Self-Taught Active Learning from Crowds

M. Fang*, X. Zhu, B. Li, W. Ding, X. Wu, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Belgium, December, 2012

Bridging Causal Relevance and Pattern Discriminability: Mining Emerging Patterns from High-Dimensional Data

K. Yu*, W. Ding, H. Wang, and X. Wu, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2012

Online Feature Selection with Streaming Features

X. Wu, K. Yu*, W. Ding, H. Wang, and X. Zhu, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2012

Geospatial Contrast Mining with Applications on Labeled Spatial Data

W. Ding, T. F. Stepinski, Josue Salazar*, Contrast Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications, Editors: Guozhu Dong and James Bailey, ISBN-13: 978-1439854327, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series, September, 2012.

Modern Advances in intelligent Systems And Tools

W. Ding, H. Jiang, M. Ali, M. Li (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence 431, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-30731-7, 2012.

Advanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence

H. Jiang, W. Ding, M. Ali, X. Wu (Eds.), Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, LANI 7345, Springer, Dalian, China, ISBN 978-3642310867, June 2012.

Coupled Behavior Analysis for Capturing Coupling Relationships in Group-based Market Manipulations

Y. Song*, L. Cao, X. Wu, G. Wei, W. Ye, W. Ding, the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, to appear, Beijing, China, August, 2012

Mining Emerging Patterns by Streaming Feature Selection

K. Yu*, W. Ding, D. A. Simovici, X. Wu, the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, to appear, Beijing, China, August, 2012

Cyber-Physical Integration to Connect Vehicles for Transformed Transportation Safety and Efficiency

D. Ni, H. Liu, W. Ding, Y. Xie, H. Wang, H. Pishro-Nik, and Q. Yu, The 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 78-87, June, Dalian, China, 2012

Adaptive Selective Learning for Automatic Identification of Sub-Kilometer Craters

S. Liu*, W. Ding, F. Gao, T. Stepinski, Neurocomputing, 2012

Exploring Causal Relationships with Streaming Features

K. Yu*, X. Wu, W. Ding, H. Wang, in press, The Computer Journal, in press, 2012

Several Remarks on Mining Frequent Trajectories in Graphs

H. Z. Lo*, D. A. Simovici, and W. Ding, The 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, June, Dalian, China, 2012

Optimization of Criminal HotSpots Based on Underlying Crime Controlling Factors Using Geospatial Discriminative Pattern

D. Wang*, W. Ding, T. Stepinski, J. Salazar*, and M. Morabito, The 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, June, Dalian, China, 2012

Virtual Lab of Connected Vehicle Technology

D. Ni, H. Liu, Y. Xie, W. Ding, H. Wang, H. Pishro-Nik, Q. Yu, M. Ferreira*, 2012 Spring Simulation Multiconference, March, 2012

MarsWeekend: A Panel and Games at the Museum of Science Boston

J. P. Cohen*, W. Ding, J. Sable, R. Li, T. Stepinski, The 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, the Woodlands, TX, March, 2012

2011
Crime Forecasting Using Data Mining Techniques

C. Yu*, M. Ward*, M. Morabito, and W. Ding, The 4th Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize, Vancouver, Canada, December, 2011

Causal Associative Classification

K. Yu*, X. Wu, W. Ding, and H. Wang, the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Vancouver, CA, December, 2011

Bernoulli Trials Based Feature Selection for Crater Detection

S. Liu*, W. Ding, J. P. Cohen*, D. Simovici, T. Stepinski, the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Chicago, IL, November, 2011

Personalized News Filtering and Summarization on the Web

X. Wu, F. Xie*, G. Wu, W. Ding, the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Boca Raton, FL, November, 2011 (Best Paper Award)

Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images Using Shape and Texture Features

L. Bandeira*, W. Ding, T.F. Stepinski, Advances in Space Research (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.08.021

Empirical Discriminative Tensor Analysis for Crime Forecasting

Y. Mu*, W. Ding, M. Morabito, D. Tao, the 5th International Conference on Knolwege Science, Engineering and Management, Irvine, CA, December, 2011

Genetically Enhanced Feature Selection of Discriminative Planetary Crater Image Features

J. P. Cohen*, S. Liu*, W. Ding, the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Perth, Australia, December, 2011

Machine Learning Approaches to Detecting Impact Craters in Planetary Images

T. F. Stepinski, W. Ding, R. Vilalta, Intelligent Data Analysis for Real-Life Applications: Theory and Practice, IGI Global, 2011

Regional Association Rule Mining and Scoping from Spatial Data

W. Ding, C. F. Eick, Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms, Editor: Lakhmi Jain, Springer Verlag's -Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Book Series, 2011

Semi-Supervised Active Class Selection for Automatic Identification of Sub-Kilometer Craters

S. Liu*, W. Ding, T. Stepinski, 7th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2011), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September, 2011

Crater Detection Using Bayesian Classifiers and LASSO

Y. Wang*, W. Ding, K. Yu*, H. Wang, X. Wu, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Integrated Systems, Guilin, Guangxi, China, October, 2011

Biologically Inspired Model for Crater Detection

Y. Mu*, W. Ding, D. Tao, T.F. Stepinski, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks(IJCNN), San Jose, CA, August, 2011

Adaptive Study Design through Semantic Association Rule Analysis

P. Chen, W. Ding, W. Garcia**, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), in press, 2011

Entropy Quad-Trees for High Complexity Regions Detection

R. Vetro*, D. A. Simovici, W. Ding, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), in press, 2011

Cascading Crater Detection with Active Learning

W. I. Mille*r, T. F. Stepinski, Y. Mu*, W. Ding, in Proc. of 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, the Woodlands, TX, March, 2011

Feasibility Study For Automatic Calibration Of Transportation Simulation Models

H, Liu, Q. Yu, W. Ding, H. Wang, S. Shannon*, in Proc. of the Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), Boston, MA, April, 2011

Sub-Kilometer Crater Discovery with Boosting and Transfer Learning

W. Ding, T. Stepinski, Y. Mu*, L. Bandeira*, R. Vilalta, Y. Wu*, Z. Lu*, T. Cao*, X. Wu, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2011

Word Sense Disambiguation with Automatically Acquired Knowledge

P. Chen, W. Ding, M. Choly**, C. Bowes**, the international journal of IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2011

2010
Causal Discovery from Streaming Features

K. Yu*, X. Wu, H. Wang, W.Ding, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), Sydney, Australia, December, 2010

Using Model Checking to Generate Test Cases for Critical Systems

W. Ding, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-8433-5565-0, 2010

Exploring Labeled Spatial Datasets Using Association Analysis (Demo Paper)

T. Stepinski, J. Salazar**, W. Ding, in Proc. of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), San Jose, California, November, 2010

Automatic Detection of Craters in Planetary Images: An Embedded Framework Using Feature Selection and Boosting

W. Ding, T. Stepinski, L. Bandeira*, R. Vilalta, Y. Wu*, Z. Lu*, T. Cao*, in Proc. of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto, Canada, October, 2010

ESTATE: Strategy for Exploring Labeled Spatial Datasets Using Association Analysis

T. Stepinski, J. Salazar**, W. Ding, D. White, in Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS10), Canberra, Australia, October, 2010.

One-Class Learning and Concept Summarization for Vaguely Labeled Data Streams

X. Zhu, W. Ding, P. Yu, C. Zhang, the international journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2010.

A Framework for Regional Association Rule Mining and Scoping in Spatial Datasets

W. Ding, C. Eick, X. Yuan, J. Wang*, J. Nicot, the international journal of GeoInformatica, 2010.

TreeMatch: A Fully Unsupervised WSD System Using Dependency Knowledge on a Specific Domain

A. Tran**, C. Bowes**, D. Brown**, P. Chen, M. Choly**, W. Ding, in Proc. of the SemEval 2010 Workshop with the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.

Online Streaming Feature Selection

X. Wu, K. Yu*, H. Wang, W. Ding, in Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010), Haifa, Israel, June, 2010.

Mining for High Complexity Regions Using Entropy and Box Counting Dimension Quad-Trees

R. Vetro, W. Ding and D. Simovici, in Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July, 2010.(Best Paper Award)

Discovering Spatio-Social Motifs of Electoral Support Using Discriminative Pattern Mining

T. Stepinski, J. Salazar**, W. Ding, Com.Geo, in Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application, Washington, DC, June, 2010.

Effective Classification for Crater Detection: A Case Study on Mars

J. Wang*, W. Ding, B. Fradkin*, C. H. Pham*, P. Sherman*, B. D. Tran*, D. Wang*, Y. Yang* and T. F. Stepinski, in Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July, 2010.

Controlling Patterns of Geospatial Phenomena

T. Stepinski, W. Ding, C. Eick, the international journal of GeoInformatica, DOI: 10.1007/s10707-010-0107-2, 2010.

2009
Large-scale Dependency Knowledge Acquisition and its Extrinsic Evaluation through Word Sense Disambiguation

P. Chen, W. Ding, D. Brown**, C. Bowes**, in Proc. of the international Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009), New Jersey, USA, November, 2009

A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method and Its Evaluation on Coarse-grained All-words Task

P. Chen, W. Ding, C. Bowes**, D. Brown**, in Proc. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2009), Boulder, Colorado, May 2009

A Gaze-Controlled Interface to Virtual Reality Applications for Motor- and Speech-Impaired Users

W. Ding, P. Chen, H. Al-Mubaid, M. Pomplun, in Proc. of the HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, July 2009.

A Lexical Knowledge Representation Model for Natural Language Understanding

P. Chen, W. Ding, C. Ding, the International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCiNi), 2009.

Word Classification: An Experimental Approach with Naive Bayes

W. Ding, H. Al-Mubaid, S. Kotagiri*, in Proc. of the ISCA 24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2009), New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2009

Discovery of Geospatial Discriminating Patterns from Remote Sensing Datasets

W. Ding, T. Stepinski, J. Salazar**, in Proc. of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Nevada, April 2009.

Discovery of Feature-Based Hot Spots Using Supervised Clustering

W. Ding, T.Stepinski, R. Parmar*, D. Jiang*, C. F. Eick, in the International Journal of Computers and Geosciences, Elsevier, March 2009.

2008
Parsing Tree Matching Based Question Answering

P. Chen, W. Ding, T. Simmons**, C. Lacayo**, in Proc. of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, November, 2008.

Discovering Controlling Factors of Geospatial Variables

T.F. Stepinski, W. Ding and C.F. Eick, in Proc. of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, November, 2008.(Best Poster Presentation Award)

Finding Regional Co-Location Patterns for Sets of Continuous Variables

C. F. Eick, R. Parmar*, W. Ding, T. F. Stepinski, J. P. Nicot, in Proc. of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, November, 2008.

Towards Regional Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Datasets

W. Ding, R. Jiamthapthaksin, R.Parmar*, D. Jiang*, T. F. Stepinski, and C. F. Eick, in Proc. of the Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Osaka, Japan, May, 2008.

An Interactive Visualization Model for Large High-Dimensional Datasets

W. Ding, Ping Chen, the international journal of Data Engineering: Mining, Information, and Intelligence. Editors: Yupo Chan, John Talburt, Terry Talley, Springer, 2008.

2007 and earlier
On Regional Association Rule Scoping

W. Ding and C. Eick and X. Yuan and J. Wang* and J.P. Nicot, in Proc. of the International workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining in Cooperation with IEEE ICDM 2007, Omaha, NE, USA, October, 2007

Mining Regional Knowledge in Spatial Datasets

W. Ding, C. Eick, in Proc. of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Orlando, FL, October 2007.

A Framework for Regional Association Rule Mining in Spatial Datasets

W. Ding and C. Eick and J. Wang* and X. Yuan, in Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE-ICDM'06), Hong Kong, China, December, 2006.

SenseNet: A Knowledge Representation Model for Computational Semantics

P. Chen, W. Ding, C. Ding, in Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July, 2006.

Parametric Surface Denoising

I.A. Kakadiaris, I. Konstantinidis, E. Papadakis, W. Ding, D.J. Kouri, and D.K. Hoffman, in Proc. of the SPIE Wavelets XI, E. Papadakis, A. Laine, M. Unser (Eds), San Diego, CA, USA, July, 2005.

Web-based Interactive Visualization of Data Cubes

X. Wang, P. Chen, and W. Ding, in Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'05), Las Vegas, USA, June, 2005.

Using a Pre-Assessment Exam to Construct an Effective Concept-based Genetic Program for Predicting Course Success

G. Boetticher, W. Ding, C. Moen, and K. Yue, in Proc. of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE'05), pp. 500-504, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Feb. 2005.

Design and Evolution of an Undergraduate Course on Web Application Development

K. Yue, W. Ding, in Proc. of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ACM ITiCSE'04), pp. 22-26, Leeds, UK, June, 2004

A Model for Open Content Communities to Support Effective Learning and Teaching

K. Yue, A. Yang, W. Ding, and P. Chen, in Proc. of the IADIS International Conference on Web-based Communities, pp. 533-536, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2004.

Knowledge Management for Agent-based Tutoring Systems

P. Chen, W. Ding, Designing Distributed Learning Environments: With Intelligent Software Agents, pp. 146-161, Ed. F. Lin, Idea Group, Inc., 2004.

Open Courseware and Computer Science Education

K. Yue, A. Yang, W. Ding, and P. Chen, the ACM Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 20, Issue 1, Utah, USA, October, 2004.

Icon-based Visualization of Large High-Dimensional Datasets

P. Chen, C. Hu, W. Ding, and H. Lynn, in Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03), pp. 505-508, Melbourne, Florida, Nov. 2003.

Using a Model Checker to Test Safety Properties

P. Ammann, W. Ding, and D. Xu*, in Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, pp. 212-221, Skovde, Sweden, June 2001.

Evaluation of Three Specification-based Testing Criteria

A. Abdurazik, P. Ammann, W. Ding, and J. Offutt, in Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, pp. 179-187, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2000.

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