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Data Mining New May 2016 CONTENTS age 1 Message he Page 2: Review of 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting age 2 Review of the Wo s and Mining ytics age 3 Review of the 6th I de age 4 age 4 Sec Data Mining a e Awa ceme s O ice s A Message from the Chair Dear DM section members, Hi Everyone! First, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your strong support of the INFORMS Section on Data Mining (DM) this year! The section has grown dramatically to over 450 members and has become one of the most active communities in INFORMS. This growth has been due to the efforts of the past advisory boards, section chairs, secretary-treasurers, council members, webmasternewsletter editor, session chairs, and other active members. Last year, as the section vice-chair, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Art Chaovalitwongse (Chair), Dr. Shawn Mankad (Secretary/Treasurer), four council 1 members (Dr. Shuai Huang, Dr. Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan, Dr. Veena Mendiratta, and Dr. Chun-An Chou), and Dr. Kaibo Liu (webmaster & newsletter editors). Without their efforts, we could not have had such a successful year for our section. At the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this year, the DM cluster sponsored 21 technical sessions. Thank you to all session chairs who organized high quality sessions for the cluster this year. More information about the cluster is included in an article below. Dr. Kamran Paynabar served as the chair of the DM Best Student Paper Award competition. Among all papers submitted, the top four papers were selected for the presentation at the DM Best Student Paper Competition session. Congratulations to the winner, Mingdi Yu, and the other three finalists Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh, Fulton Wang, and Murat Yildirim. Thank you to Dr. Paynabar and the team of reviewers for their work in selecting the finalists and winner. More information about the finalists is included below. In conjunction with the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the annual Data Mining-Analytics workshop was held. Workshop co-chairs Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan, Shuai Huang, and Asil Oztekin invested a tremendous amount of time and effort to organize the workshop, which was reflected in a high quality event. In addition, great thanks are given to our workshop sponsors, including IBM and University of Massachusetts Lowell. More information about the workshop is included in an article below. analytics. Dr. Onur Seref will take the lead in This year, INFORMS has three invited sessions at the Statistical Learning and Data Mining (SLDM) 2015 Conference on June 9-11, 2015, at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is the link: http://www.unc.edu/%7Eyfliu/sldm2016/ SLDM is a section of the American Statistical Association and holds conferences once every 2 years. It is a good way to link the INFORMS data mining community with the statistics data mining community. More information about the SLDM can be found at: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sldm/ the section continues to grow in membership and is in organizing the cluster for the INFORMS Annual Meeting next year. At the business meeting, the Secretary/Treasurer Dr. Shawn Mankad reported that good financial health. Review of the Workshop on Data Mining and Analytics The Data Mining (DM) Subdivisions of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) organized the Workshop on Data Mining and Analytics (INFORMS DM-Analytics 2015) on Oct 31, 2015 at Philadelphia, PA, in conjunction with the 2015 INFORMS Annual Conference. A total of 25 papers were selected under Next year the DM section will have another great year in 2015 with the new slate of officers: Dr. Onur Seref, Chair-Elect, Dr. Michael Hahsler (Secretary/Treasurer), Dr. Paul Brooks, Council Member, and Dr. Kaibo Liu, Council Member. Ramin Moghaddass is our new webmaster. a peer-review process for presenting in two parallel all-day tracks (7 sessions) at the workshop and some were invited to a special issue of Annals of Operations Research. Two keynote speakers presented at the workshop: Dr. Sounder Kumara (Pennsylvania State University) and Dr. Joe Zhu Review of 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). The detailed The 2015 INFORMS Annual meeting was held in INFORMS website at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 1-4, 2015. The (https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/form builder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=3481&mmnno=2 75) The keynote abstracts are here: (https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/form builder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=3488&mmnno=2 75) session information and abstracts are available on the Data Mining Section sponsored 21 sessions. The sessions covered a variety of topics including Machine and statistical learning and planning for mechanical, medical and bioinformatics applications; data analytics and optimization for manufacturing system design, energy and healthcare applications; social media and network analysis; and business data 2 The program co-Chairs of this workshop were Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Asil Oztekin (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), and Shuai Huang (University of Washington, USA). The Management Committee consisted of Kwok-Leung Tsui (Georgia Institute of Technology), Victoria Chen (University of Texas at Arlington, USA), George Runger (Arizona State University), and Tom Au (AT&T Labs). • Murat Yildirim and Nagi Gebraeel, Sensor-Driven Condition-Based Generation Maintenance and Operations Scheduling, Georgia Institute of Technology. Review of the 6th Annual INFORMS Data Mining Student Paper Award Dr. Kamran Paynabar organized the competition this year. The top four papers were selected for the presentation at the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The information on the four finalists and their papers is as follows. • Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh, Enrique Del Castillo and Necdet Serhat Aybat, Sparse Precision Matrix Selection for Fitting Gaussian Random Field Models to Large Data Sets, Penn State University. • Mingdi You and Eunshin Byon, A When Wind Meets Turbines: A New Statistical Approach for Characterizing the Heterogeneous Wake Effects in Multi-turbine Wind Farms, University of Michigan. • Fulton Wang and Cynthia Rudin, Falling Rule Lists, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner of the Best Student Paper Award was Mingdi You and Eunshin Byon for the paper titled 3 “When Wind Meets Turbines: A New Statistical Approach for Characterizing the Heterogeneous Wake Effects in Multi-turbine Wind Farms" from University of Michigan. Secretary / Treasurer Michael Hahsler Southern Methodist University Email: [email protected] The award was established in 2009 to increase the involvement of students in the section, facilitate networking among students with interest in data mining, and recognize excellent student work. Council Members Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan Boğaziçi University Email: [email protected] Next year, we will have 4 best paper awards, sponsored by SAS. Veena Mendiratta Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Email: [email protected] Announcements Schedule Meetings of Upcoming Annual Kaibo Liu University of Wisconsin Email: [email protected] INFORMS 2016 INFORMS International Meeting June 12-15, 2016. Hawaii, USA Paul Brooks Virginia Commonwealth University Email: [email protected] 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting November 13-16, 2016 Nashville, TN, USA. Former Chairs Kwok Tsui (2003-2004) City University of Hong Kong Section Officers Tom Au (2004-2005) AT&T Lab Chair Cynthia Rudin Duke University Email: [email protected] Tory Chen (2005-2006) University of Texas at Arlington Andrew Kusiak (2006-2007) University of Iowa Vice Chair Onur Seref Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Email: [email protected] Wei Jiang (2007-2008) Stevens Institute of Technology 4 Xiaoming Huo (2008-2009) Georgia Institute of Technology Rong (Winnie) Duan (2009-2010) AT&T Lab Seoung Bum Kim (2010-2011) Korea University Jing Li (2011-2012) Arizona State University Paul Brooks (2012-2013) Virginia Commonwealth University M.K. Jeong (2013-2014) Rutgers University Art Chaovalitwongse (2014-2015) University of Washington Webmaster/Newsletter Editor Ramin Moghaddass University of Miami Data Mining Workshop 2016 Co-Chairs Asil Oztekin, Ramin Moghaddass, and Cem Iyigun Data Mining Section Website Please visit our website at http://dm.section.informs.org/ 5