Recent Publications by Kai Ming Ting


Journal Publications

Liu, T., Ting, K.M., Yu, Y. & Zhou, Z. (2008). Spectrum of Variable-Random Trees. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research . Vol.32. pp. 355-384. AI Access Foundation.

Yang, Y., Webb, G.I., J., Korb, K., and Ting, K.M. Classifying under computational resource constraints: anytime classification using probabilistic estimators. Machine Learning . Vol.69. No.1. September 2007, pp. 35-53. Springer.

Yang, Y., Webb, G.I., Cerquides, J., Korb, K., Boughton, J. and Ting, K.M. To Select or To Weigh: A Comparative Study of Linear Combination Schemes for SuperParent-One-Dependence Ensembles. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering . Vol.19. No.12. December 2007, pp. 1652-1665.

Webb, G.I. and Ting, K.M. On the Application of ROC Analysis to Predict Classification Performance Under Varying Class Distributions. Machine Learning Journal , Vol.58. No.1. January 2005, pp. 25-32. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISSN: 0885-6125

Ting, K.M. and Zheng , Z. A Study of AdaBoost with Naïve Bayesian Classifiers: Weakness and Improvement. International Journal of Computational Intelligence . Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 186-200. Blackwell Publishing.

Ting, K.M.. An Instance-Weighting Method to Induce Cost-Sensitive Trees. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering . Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 659-665, May/June 2002.

Ting, K.M. and Witten , I.H. Issues in Stacked Generalization. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research . AI Access Foundation and Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Vol.10, pp. 271-289, 1999.

Ting, K.M., Low, B.T. and Witten , I.H. Learning from batched data: model combination versus data combination. Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems . Vol.1 No.1, Springer- Verlag , pp. 83-106, 1999.

Ting, K.M. Decision Combination based on the Characterisation of Predictive Accuracy. International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis . 1997, Vol. 1, No. 3. pp. 181-205. Elsevier Science.

Ting, K.M. Discretisation in Lazy Learning Algorithms. Artificial Intelligence Review . 1997, Vol. 11, pp. 157-174. (Special Issue on `Lazy Learning'). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Book Chapters

Beliakov , G., Ting, K.M., Murshed , M., Rubinov , A. and Bertoli , M. Efficient Serial and Parallel Implementations of the Cutting Angle Global Optimisation Technique. Chapter 3 in High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization , G. Di Pillo and A. Murli , editors, G. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.

Ting, K.M. Cost Sensitive Classification Using Decision Trees, Boosting and MetaCost . Book chapter in Heuristic and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery . Edited by Sarker , R., Abbass , H. & Newton, C. Idea Group Publishing. 2002.

Ting, K.M. Discretisation in lazy learning algorithms, Lazy Learning . Editor: David Aha. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1997. A reprint from Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review.

Conference Publications

Liu, T., Ting, K.M. & Zhou, Z-H. (2008). Isolation Forests. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. 15-19 December 2008. Pisa, Italy, pp. 413-422. [Awarded the Runner-up Best Paper Award in IEEE ICDM 2008] [Presentation slides]

Tan, S., Ting, K.M., & Teng , S. (2008). Issues of Grid-cluster Retrievals in Swarm-based clustering. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - Congress on Evolutionary Computation . 1 June 2008 to 6 June 2008, Hong Kong , pp. 511-518.

Yu, Y., Zhou, Z-H. & Ting, K.M. Cocktail Ensemble for Regression. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining . October 28-31, 2007 . Omaha , NE , USA . Pages. 721-726.

Tan, S.C., Ting, K.M. and Teng, S.W. Examining Dissimilarity Scaling in Ant Colony Approaches to Data Clustering. Proceedings of The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life. 4-6 December 2007. Gold Coast , Australia . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4828. pages. 269-280. Springer Berlin

Liu, T & Ting, K.M. Variable Randomness in Decision Tree Ensembles. Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining . April 9-12, 2006 . Singapore . Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3918. pages. 81-90. Berlin : Springer-Verlag [Awarded the Best Paper in PAKDD 2006]

Tan, S.C., Ting, K.M. and Teng, S.W. Reproducing the results of ant-based clustering without using ants. Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006) . Pages. 1760- 1767. Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.  IEEE Press.

Yang, Y., Webb, G.I., Cerquides, J., Korb, K., Boughton, J. and Ting, K.M. To Select or To Weigh: A Comparative Study of Model Selection and Model Weighing for SPODE Ensembles. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4212. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2006). Pages. 533-544. Springer.

Imam, T., Ting, K.M. & Kamruzzaman, J. z-SVM: An SVM for Improved Classification of Imbalanced Data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4304: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006) , pages 264-273. Springer.

Teng, S. W. & Ting K.M. Ehipasiko: A Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval System. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Active MediaTechnology . 7-9 June, 2006, pages. 436-437, IOS Press.

Molloy, S., Albrecht, D., Dowe , D. & Ting, K.M. Model-based Clustering of Sequential Data. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics , Maths and Related Fields. January 16-18, 2006. Hawaii .

Liu, T. F., Ting, K.M. and Fan, W. Maximizing Tree Diversity by Building Complete-Random Decision Trees. Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining . Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3518. pp. 605-610. May 2005. Berlin : Springer- Verlag .

Pang, K.P. and Ting, K.M. SUMSRM: A New Statistic for the Structural Break Detection in Time Series. In Proceedings of the 2005 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Newport Beach , CA. 21-23, April, 2005. pp. 392-403. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ).

Yang, Y., K. Korb , K-M. Ting, and G.I. Webb (2005). Ensemble Selection for SuperParent -One-Dependence Estimators. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 18th Australian Conference on AI (AI 05) , volume LNCS 3809, pages 102-111. Berlin : Springer. ISBN 3-540-30462-2

Ting, K.M. Matching Model versus Single Model: A Study of the Requirement to Match Class Distribution using Decision Trees. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference in Machine Learning . Pisa , Italy . 20-24, September 2004.  Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3201. pp. 429-440.  Berlin : Springer- Verlag .

Pang, K.P. and Ting, K.M. Improving the Centered CUSUMS Statistics for Structural Break Detection in Time Series. In Proceedings of The Seventeenth Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference. Cairns , Australia . 6 - 10, December 2004. Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3339. pp. 402-413. Berlin : Springer- Verlag .

Ting, K.M and Quek , R.J.Y. Model Stability: A key factor in determining whether an algorithm produces an optimal model from a matching distribution. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Data Mining . pp. 653-656. Melbourne , Florida , USA . November 19-22, 2003. The full paper appears as Technical Report TR-2003/3 . GSCIT, Monash University .

Ting, K.M. Issues in Classifier Evaluation using Optimal Cost Curves . Proceedings of The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning . pp. 642-649. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann. University of New South Wales . July 8-12, 2002.

Ting, K.M.  A Study of the Effect of Class Distribution using Cost-Sensitive Learning . Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Discovery Science . pp. 98-112. LNCS-2534. Berlin : Springer- Verlag . November 24-26, 2002.

Wells, J.R., Ting, K.M., Murshed , M., and Beliakov , G. Analysis of Runtime Performance using Heap Data Structure for the Cutting Angle Global Optimisation Algorithm. Proceedings of  the Sixth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology .  pp. 80-85. December 19-21, 2003.

Pang, K.P. and Ting, K.M. Improving Time Series Prediction by Data Selection. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling Control and Automation. Vienna . 12-14, February, 2003.  

Beliakov , G., Ting, K.M. and Murshed , M.  Efficient Serial and Parallel Implementations of the Cutting Angle Global Optimisation Technique. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications. Vol. 1, pp. 80-87. December 15-17, 2001. Hong Kong . ISBN 962-86475-1-2.

Barnes, M.B., Ting, K.M. and Rimmer , R.J.  Predicting stock indices n-days ahead: A comparison of techniques using Australian data. Proceedings of the International ICSC-NAISO Congress on Computational Intelligence :Methods and Applications. Bangor , Wales , United Kingdom . June 19-22, 2001.

Ting, K.M. A Comparative Study of Cost-Sensitive Boosting Algorithms . Proceedings of The Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning. pp. 983-990. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann. Stanford University , June 29 - July 2, 2000. A long version paper appears as Technical Report C02/00 , School of Computing & Mathematics, Deakin University .

Ting, K.M. An Empirical Study of MetaCost using Boosting Algorithms. Proceedings of The Eleventh European Conference on Machine Learning. LNAI-1810, pp. 413-425. Berlin : Springer- Verlag . Barcelona , May 30 - June 2, 2000. A long version paper appears as Technical Report C01/00 , School of Computing & Mathematics, Deakin University .

Barnes, M.B., Rimmer , R.J. and Ting, K.M. A study of techniques for mining data from the Australian Stock Exchange . Proceedings of The Fourth World Multiconference on Systemics , Cybernetics and Informatics , SCI 2000 Vol. VIII Part II pp.52-57. July 23 - 26, 2000. Orlando , Florida .

Ting, K.M., Zheng , Z. and Webb, G. Learning Lazy Rules to Improve the Performance of Classifiers , Proceedings of the Nineteenth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence , Springer, pp. 122-131, 1999.

Wan, C., Wang, L. and Ting, K.M. Introducing Cost-Sensitive Neural Networks , Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS) . Singapore , December 7-10, 1999.

Zheng , Z., Webb, G. and Ting, K.M. Lazy Bayesian Rules: A Lazy Semi-Naive Bayesian Learning Technique Competitive to Boosting Decision Trees . Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning. 1999, pp. 493-502, Morgan Kaufmann.

Frayman , Y., Ting, K.M. and Wang, L. A Fuzzy Neural Network for Data Mining: Dealing with the Problem of Small Disjuncts . Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99). paper 543, Washington , DC , July 10-16, 1999.

Ting, K.M. and Z. Zheng . Improving the Performance of Boosting for Naive Bayesian Classification. Proceedings of the Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-99). LNAI-1574, Berlin : Springer- Verlag , pp. 296-305, 1999.

Ting, K.M. and Z.  Zheng . Boosting Cost-Sensitive Trees . P roceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science . LNAI-1532, Berlin : Springer- Verlag , pp. 244-255, 1998.

Z. Zheng , G.I. Webb, and K.M. Ting. Integrating Boosting and Stochastic Attribute Selection Committees for Further Improving the Performance of Decision Tree Learning . P roceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-98), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 216-223, 1998.

Ting, K.M. Inducing Cost-Sensitive Trees via Instance Weighting . Proceedings of The Second European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. LNAI-1510, pp. 139-147, 1998.

Ting, K.M. and Z..  Zheng . Boosting Trees for Cost-Sensitive Classifications . Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Machine Learning . LNAI-1398, Berlin : Springer- Verlag , pp. 190-195, 1998. (A long version appears as Working Paper 1/98 , Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato .)

Ting, K.M. and B.T. Low. Model Combination in the multiple-data-batches scenario . Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Machine Learning. LNAI-1224, 1997, pp. 250-265.  ( A old version appears as Working Paper 96/19 . Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato .)

Ting, K.M. and I.H.  Witten . Stacked Generalization: When Does It Work? , Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 1997, pp. 866-871. (A long version appears as Working Paper 97/3 , Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato ).

Ting, K.M. and I.H.  Witten . Stacking Bagged and Dagged Models , Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning . 1997, pp. 367-375. (Also as Working Paper 97/9 , Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato ).

Ting, K.M. The Characterisation of Predictive Accuracy and Decision Combination . Proceedings of the Thirteen International Conference on Machine Learning . 1996, pp. 498-506.

Ting, K.M. Towards using a Single Uniform Metric in Instance-Based Learning. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning . Sesimbra , Portugal 1995, pp. 23-26.

Ting, K.M. An M-of-N Rule Induction Algorithm and its Application to DNA Domain . P roceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences . 1994, Vol. 5, pp. 133-140.

Ting, K.M. Discretization of Continuous-valued attributes and Instance-Based Learning , Technical Report No. 491, 1994, Basser Department of Computer Science, The University of Sydney.

Ting, K.M. and M.R. Cameron-Jones. Exploring a Framework for Instance-Based Learning and Naive Bayesian Classifiers . Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence . 1994, pp. 100-107.

Ting, K.M. The Problem of Atypicality in Instance-Based Learning , Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Beijing 1994, pp. 360-366, International Academic Publishers.

Ting, K.M. The Problem of Small Disjuncts : its remedy in Decision Trees , Proceedings of the Tenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 1994, pp. 91-97.


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