DMCS Past Papers and DMCS Practice Prize Winners
2005
Improved Cardiac Care via Automated Mining of Medical Patient Records R. Bharat Rao Siemens Medical [2005 1st Place Prize Winner]
Closing the Gap: Automated Screening of Tax Returns to Identify Egregious Tax Shelters Dave DeBarr and Zach Eyler-Walker Mitre Corporation [2005 2nd Place Prize Winner]
Revenue Recovery with Insolvency Prevention on a Brazilian Telecom Operator Carlos Andre R. Pinheiro, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Brasil Telecom and COPPE/UFRJ
The Mining of SAS Technical Support Data Annette Sanders and Craig DeVault SAS Corporation
Data-driven Modeling of Acute Toxicity of Pesticide Residues Frank Lemke, Emilio Benfenati, Johann-Adolf Mueller KnowledgeMiner Inc. / Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche
External Search Term Marketing Program: A Return on Investment Approach Pramod Singh, Laksminarayan Choudur and Alan Benson Hewlett-Packard Company
Optimal Allocation of Online Advertisements using Decision Trees and Non-Linear Programming David Montgomery Poindexter Systems
Autonomous Profit Maximization in Online Search Advertising Brendan Kitts, Benjamin J. Perry, Benjamin LeBlanc, Parameshvyas Laxminarayan iProspect / Isobar Communications Corporation
Price Optimization in Grocery Stores with Cannibalistic Product Interactions Brendan Kitts and Kevin Hetherington iProspect / Mitre Corporation
Market Basket Recommendations for the HP SMB Store Pramod Singh, Charles Thomas and Ariel Sepulveda Hewlett-Packard Company
Publishing Operational Models of Data Mining Case Studies Timm Euler University of Dortmund
Championing LTV at LTC Ed Freeman and Gabor Melli Washington Mutual / PredictionWorks Inc.
Survival Analysis Models to Estimate Customer Lifetime Value Paolo Giudici, Silvia Figini, Claudia Galliano and Daniela Polla University of Pavia / Sky Italy
Neural Network to identify and prevent bad debt in Telephone Companies Carlos André R. Pinheiro, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Brasil Telecom / Coppe / UFRJ
Data Mining-Based Segmentation for Targeting: A Telecommunications Example Kasindra Maharaj and Robert Ceurvorst Synovate Inc.
2007
Data Quality Models for High Volume Transaction Streams Joseph Bugajski, Chris Curry, Robert Grossman, David Locke, Steve Vejcik Open Data Group and Visa International [2007 1st Place Prize Winner]
Analytics-driven solutions for customer targeting and sales force allocation R. Lawrence, C. Perlich, S. Rosset, I. Khabibrakhmanov, S. Mahatma, S. Weiss IBM T.J.Watson Research Center [2007 2nd Pace Prize Winner]
How Investigative Data Mining Can Help Intelligence Agencies in Understanding and Splitting Terrorist Networks Nasrullah Memon, David L. Hicks, Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, Henrik Legind Larsen Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg and Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
Smartmatch Brendan Kitts and Gang Wu Microsoft Corporation
Finding Duplicates in the 2010 Census Edward "Ned" Porter and Michael Ikeda US Census Bureau
Any-time clustering of high frequency news streams Fabian Moerchen, Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer Siemens Corporate Research
Data mining for quality improvement Françoise Fogelman Soulié and Doug Bryan Kxen
A Process to Define Sequential Treatment Episodes for Patient Care Patricia B. Cerrito University of Louisville
Weight Watchers: Four Years of Successful Data Mining Tom Osborn University of Technology Sydney / Thought Experiments
Extreme Data Mining: Optimized Search Portfolio Management Kenneth L. Reed Xtreme Data Mining LLC
Mining Source Code Elements for Comprehending Object-Oriented Systems and Evaluating Their Maintainability Yiannis Kanellopoulos, Thimios Dimopulos, Christo Tjortjis, Christo Makris University of Manchester, Deutsche Telekom Labs, University of Patras
Blocking Objectionable Web Content by Leveraging Multiple Information Sources Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Jianping Zhang Arizona State University and America Online Inc
Service Quality Improvement through Business Process Management based on Data Mining Sung Ho Ha and Sang Chan Park Kyungpook National University and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Text Mining for Product Attribute Extraction Rayid Ghani, Katharina Probst, Yan Liu, Marko Krema and Andrew Fano Accenture Technology Labs and Carnegie Mellon University
2009
Mining Medical Images Glenn Fung, Balaji Krhnapuram, Jinbo Bi, Murat Dundar, Vikas Raykar, Romer Rosales, Sriram Krishnan, R. Bharat Rao Siemens [2009 1st Place Prize Winner]
Data Mining Based Tax Audit Selection: A Case Study from Minnesota Department of Revenue Kuo-Wei Hsu, Nishith Pathak, Jaideep Srivastava, Greg Tschida and Eric Bjorklund U. of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Revenue [2009 2nd Place Prize Winner]
Online Experimentation at Microsoft Ron Kohavi, Thomas Crook and Roger Longbotham Microsoft [2009 3rd Place Prize Winner]
Data mining for intelligence led policing R. van der Veer, H. T. Roos, A. van der Zanden Sentient and Amsterdam Police Force [2009 3rd Place Prize Winner]
A Practical Approach to Combine Data Mining and Prognostics for Improved Predictive Maintenance Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani, Marc Engels, Andy Motten, Steve Vandenplas, Agusmian P. Ompusunggu Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre
Identification of Independent Individualistic Predictors of Mail Order Pharmacy Prescription Utilization of Healthcare Claims Aishwarya Meenakshi Sundar and Jaideep Srivastava U. of Minnesota
Data Mining Approach to Credit Risk Evaluation of Online Personal Loan Applicants Pavel Brusilovsky Business Intelligence Solutions
Migration of Data Mining Pre-processing into the DBMS Carlos Ordonez, Javier Garcıa-Garcıa and Michael J. Rote U. of Houston, UNAM and Teradata
Estimating Potential Customer Value using a classification technique to determine customer value Thiery Vallaud and Daniel Larose SOCIO Logiciels
Clickfraud Bot Detection: High Stakes Adversarial Signal Detection Brendan Kitts, Albert Roux, Jing Ying Zhang, Raj Mahato, Ron Mills, Wesley Brandi, Kamran Kanany, Matthew Rice, Gang Wu Microsoft
Correlation Explorations in a Classification Model Vincent Lemaire, Carine Hue and Olivier Bernier Orange Labs and GFI Informatique
2011
Detection of Anomalous Particles from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using SIPPER3 Underwater Imaging Platform Sergiy Fefilatyev, Kurt Kramer, Lawrence Hall, Dmitry Goldgof, Rangachar Kasturi, Andrew Remsen, Kendra Daly University of South Florida [2011 1st Place Prize Winner]
Analysis of Treatment Patterns: A Case Study on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Ching Lien and Silvia Figueira Santa Clara University
Dynamic Loan Service Monitoring using Segmented Hidden Markov Models Haengju Lee, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Raj Minhas, Shi Zhao Xerox Research Center Webster
Evaluation & extension to Duckworth Lewis method: A dual application of data mining techniques Viraj Phanse and Sourabh Deorah University of California, Los Angeles
Evolutionary algorithms for selecting the architecture of a MLP Neural Network: A Credit Scoring Case Alejandro Correa Bahnsen and Andres F. Gonzalez Colpatria Bank - GE Capital JV, Colombia
A/B Testing at SweetIM: The Importance of Proper Statistical Analysis Slava Borodovsky and Saharon Rosset SweetIM and Tel-Aviv University
"The 100 Most Influential Persons in History”: A Data Mining Perspective Noora Al-Naimi and Khaled Shaban Qatar University
An Augmented Vector Space Information Retrieval for Recovering Requirement Traceability Yoshihisa Udagawa Tokyo Polytechnic University
Classification Rule Mining Supported by Ontology for Discrimination Discovery Thanh Binh Luong, Franco Turini, and Salvatore Ruggieri Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca and Università di Pisa
Crime Forecasting Using Data Mining Techniques Chung-Hsien Yu, Max Ward, Melissa Morabito, and Wei Ding University of Massachusetts Boston
Identification of Human Behavior Patterns Based on the GSP_M Algorithm Hector Gomez and Rafael Martinez Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador and Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia, Spain
Integrating Collaborative Filtering and Search-based Techniques for Personalized Online Product Recommendation Yue Xu, Noraswaliza Abdullah, and Shlomo Geva Queensland University of Technology
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