Xin Yao's Research Interests: Data Mining

I'm interested in several different data mining tasks, e.g., fraud detection, classification, rule discovery, data warehousing, etc.

Selected Papers

1. M. Salim and X. Yao, ``Evolving SQL Queries for Data Mining,'' Proc. of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'02), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2412, Springer, August 2002, pp.62-67.
   Available from Springer's web site as a PDF file.

2. C. Zhang, X. Yao and J. Yang, ``An Evolutionary Approach to Materialized Views Selection in a Data Warehouse Environment,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, 31(3):282-294, August 2001.
   Available as a gzipped ps file.

3. H. He, S. Hawkins, W. Graco, and X. Yao, ``Application of Genetic Algorithm and K-Nearest Neighbour Method in Real World Medical Fraud Detection Problem,'' Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, 4(2):130-137, 2000.