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(10/13/07) We have four papers accepted by ICDE'08, all as Full Presentation Papers with 12.1% acceptance ratio, as follows:

- Hong Cheng, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Philip S. Yu, "Direct Discriminative Pattern Mining for Effective Classification", Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), Cancun, Mexico, April
2008. (full presentation paper, 12.1% acceptance ratio)

- Jae-Gil Lee, Jiawei Han, and Xiaolei Li, "Trajectory Outlier Detection: A Partition-and-Detect Framework", Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. (full presentation paper, 12.1% acceptance ratio)

- Dong Xin and Jiawei Han, "P-Cube: Answering Preference Queries in Multi-Dimensional Space", Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. (full presentation paper,
12.1% acceptance ratio)

- Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, and Jiawei Han, "Training Linear Discriminant Analysis in Linear Time", Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. (full presentation paper, 12.1% acceptance ratio)
　

Also, we have one tutorial accepted by ICDE'08: Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin and Philip S. Yu, "Exploring the Power of Links in Scalable Data Analysis", ICDE'08 conference tutorial, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

Moreover, Chao Liu's tutorial has been accepted by ICDM'07: Chao Liu, Tao Xie, and Jiawei Han, "Mining for Software Reliability", ICDM'2007 Conference Tutorial, Omaha, NE, Oct. 2007.

- Deng Cai has yet another paper accepted by IEEE TKDE: Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Jiawei Han, "Learning a Maximum Margin Subspace for Image Retrieval", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept. 2007.
　

(4/22/07) The following paper of Deng's has been accepted by AAAI'2007
- Deng Cai, Xiaofei He and Jiawei Han, "Isometric Projection".
　

(4/20/07) Our 2006 Fall graduate, Dr. Xifeng Yan, has received 2007 SIGMOD Dissertation Honorable Mention Award after rounds of discussions by SIGMOD Dissertation Award Committee.

(3/28/07) Feida's paper, presented at yesterday's DAIS seminar, has just received

This is the second consecutive time DAIS students have received this award (Hector and Xiaolei's paper
received this award in ICDE'06). Congrats to Feida, Xifeng, and Hong!
　

(3/13/07) Deng has got his paper accepted by CVPR as a poster paper. CVPR is a top conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

- Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Yuxiao Hu, Jiawei Han, and Thomas Huang, "Learning a Spatially Smooth Subspace for Face Recognition", Proc. 2007 IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), (poster paper), Minneapolis, MN, June 2007.
　

(3/6/07) Xiaoxin has passed Ph.D. defense successfully on Monday morning. Congrats, Dr. Xiaoxin Yin!!

(3/3/07) Chulyun and Sang have collaborated with Prof. Sheng Zhong in Bio-Engineering and worked out a software system for microarray analysis. The paper has been accepted by BMC Bioinformatics:

- Chulyun Kim, Sangkyum Kim, Russell Dorer, Dan Xie, Jiawei Han, and Sheng Zhong, TagSmart: Analysis and Visualization for Yeast Mutant Fitness Data Measured by Tag Microarrays, BMC Bioinformatics, 2007.

- Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, and Kevin C.-C. Chang, Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions, Proc. 2007 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07), Beijing, China, June 2007.

- Jae-Gil Lee, Jiawei Han, and Kyu-Young Whang, Trajectory Clustering: A Partition-and-Group Framework, Proc. 2007 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07), Beijing, China, June 2007.

Dong's paper got accepted by DBRank'07 (ICDE'07 workshop):
- Dong Xin and Jiawei Han, "Integrating OLAP and Ranking: The Ranking-Cube Methodology", Proc. 2007 ICDE Int. Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank'07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.

Hong, Dong, and Xifeng's paper published at DAMI'07.
- Jiawei Han, Hong Cheng, Dong Xin, and Xifeng Yan, "Frequent Pattern Mining: Current Status and Future Directions", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 14(1), 2007. (Online version published on January 27, 2007, DOI 10.1007/s10618-006-0059-1 SpringerLink).

- Jing Gao, Wei Fan, and Jiawei Han. "A General - Framework for Mining Concept-Drifting Data Streams with Skewed Distributions", (SDM'07).
- Xiaolei Li, Jiawei Han, Sangkyum Kim, and Hector Gonzalez, "ROAM: Rule- and Motif-Based Anomaly Detection in Massive Moving Object Data Sets", (SDM'07).

- Feida Zhu, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Philip S. Yu, "gPrune: A Constraint Pushing Framework for Graph Pattern Mining", (PAKDD'07) (Acceptance rate:

(10/07/06) Four papers have been accepted to ICDE'07. Congrats to the authors!

- Hong Cheng, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Chih-Wei Hsu. "Discriminative Frequent Pattern Analysis for Effective Classification" (full paper)
- Feida Zhu, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu, and Hong Cheng. "Mining Colossal Frequent Patterns by Core Pattern Fusion" (full paper)
- Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, and Xuehua Shen. "Cost-conscious Cleaning of Massive RFID Data Sets" (poster paper)
- Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, and Philip S. Yu. "Object Distinction: Distinguishing Objects with Identical Names by Link Analysis" (poster paper)
　

(09/19/06) Deng and Jing just got their papers accepted by IJCAI and ICDM conferences.

- Jing Gao and Pang-Ning Tan, "Converting Output Scores from Outlier Detection Algorithms into Probability Estimates" ICDM’06 (Full paper)

- Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Kun Zhou, Jiawei Han and Hujun Bao, Maximum Margin Projection, Proc. 12th Int. Joint Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'07), Hyderabad, India, Jan. 2007. (Poster paper)
　

- Chao Liu, Zeng Lian, and Jiawei Han, "How Bayesians Debug" (full paper)

- Hong Cheng, Philip S. Yu, and Jiawei Han, "ACClose: Efficiently Mining Approximate Closed Itemsets by Core Pattern Recovery" (short paper)

(07/31/06) Xifeng has successfully and of course smoothly passed today's Ph.D. defense exam! All the committee members praised him for his impressive and abundant research results. They have all agreed to nominate him for dissertation award competition.
　

(07/14/06) Chao has got his paper accepted by another major SIGSOFT conference (FSE'06) as a full paper, with the following citation: C. Liu and J. Han, "Failure Proximity: A Fault Localization-Based Approach'', In Proc. of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'06), Portland, OR, Nov. 2006. This is his second FSE paper following his (and Xifeng's) successful FSE'05 paper.
　

(05/30/06) We have the following papers accepted by VLDB'06 conferences: All are full papers.
- Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, and Philip Yu. LinkClus: Efficient Clustering via Heterogeneous Semantic Links
-Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, and Xiaolei Li FlowCube: Constructuing RFID FlowCubes for Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Commodity Flows
- Dong Xin, Chen Chen, and Jiawei Han Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries
- Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Hong Cheng, and Xiaolei Li Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach
Congrats to all the authors!!
　

(04/07/06) Hector and Xiaolei's paper: Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei Li, and Diego Klabjan, "Warehousing and Analysis of Massive RFID Data Sets" has received the BEST STUDENT PAPER Award at ICDE'06 conference.