Research Interests
- Business
intelligence, Data mining, Data warehousing
- Complexity,
Computational modeling in business; Agent-based models
- Evolutionary
computation , Machine learning
- Intelligent
decision support in database marketing, financial markets.
- Information
Technology, E-business
Current work
- A
Uniform Exchange Price Mechanism for Fair and Efficient Exchanges in
Peer-to-Peer Systems, with K. Tharakunnel.
- Reinforcement
Learning in Leader-Follower Multi-agent Systems. with
K. Tharakunnel.
- From
Choice of Procurement Strategy to Supply Network Configuration: An
Evolutionary Approach, with Y. Zhang.
- Information
Sharing in Supply Networks, with Y. Zhang.
- Analysis
of B2B E-Marketplaces: An Operations Perspective, with Y. Zhang.
- Creativity
in Networked Contexts, with Stellan Ohlsson.
- Discerning
Seller Quality in Online Markets: An Agent-Based Approach, with D.
Lundquist.
- Proximity-based
Scoring in Random Forests.
Publications
- "Effectiveness
of Q-Learning as a Tool for Calibrating Agent-Based Supply Network
Models", with Y. Zhang, Enterprise Information Systems,
forthcoming.
- "Leader-Follower
semi-Markov decision problems: Theoretical framework and approximate
solution", with K. Tharakummel. In
Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning., IEEE Symposium Series on Computational
Intelligence, 2007.
- “Design,
Development and Validation of an Agent-Based Model of Electronic
Auctions”, with Mehta, K, Information Technology and Management,
vol 7, no 3, 191-212, 2006.
- “Minimal
Intelligence Agents in Double Auction Markets with Speculators”, with
Wu, S., Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational
Intelligence. S-H. Chen (Ed.)., 2006.
- “Reinforcement
Learning in Leader-Follower Multiagent
Systems”, with Tharakunnel, K., Proceedings
of the 14th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 2004
(WITS 2004).
- “Topology,
Search, and Fault Tolerance in Unstructured P2P Networks”, with Samant, K., in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Science, 2004 (HICSS'04).
- "Adequacy
of Training Data for Evolutionary Mining of Trading Rules”, with
Mehta, K., Decision Support Systems, v.37 n.4, p.461-474, 2004.
Issue on Data Mining for Financial Decision Making, Wang, H., and A. S. Weigend (Eds.).
- "Genetic
Programming for Large-Scale Classification: An Ensemble Approach",
with Zhang, Y., Information Sciences, v. 163 ,n.
1-3, 2004. Issue on Soft Computing Data Mining, A. Ghosh
and S.K.Pal (Eds.).
- "Evolutionary
Computation for Data Mining", Journal of Database Marketing,
v. 10, n. 4, p. 343-352, 2003.
- "Genetic
Search over Probability Spaces", with M.D. Troutt,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 144, no. 2, , pp.
333-347(15), January 2003.
- "Knowledge-Intensive
Genetic Discovery of Foreign Exchange Trading Models", with O.V. Pictet and G. Zumbach, IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol
6, no 2, 169-181, 2002.
- "Data
Mining on Time Series: An Illustration Using Fast-Food Restaurant
Franchise Data", with L.Liu, S. Sclove, R. Chen and W.J. Lattyak,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.37(2001), 455-476.
- "Evolutionary
Induction of Trading Models", with K. Mehta, in Evolutionary
Computation in Economics and Finance, S-H. Chen (Ed.), Studies in
Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 100, Physica-Verlag,
2002.
- "Task-Structure
Analysis: A Modularized Approach for Modeling Knowledge Intensive
Processes", with R. Wong, in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences (HICCS-35), January, 2002.
- "Evolutionary
Algorithms in Data Mining: Multi-Objective Performance Modeling for Direct
Marketing", in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2000), Boston, August,
2000, AAAI Press.
- "Direct
Marketing Performance Modeling using Genetic Algorithms", INFORMS
Journal of Computing, vol. 11, no.3, Summer
1999.
- "Direct
Marketing Response Models using Genetic Algorithms", in Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (KDD-98), New
York, August, 1998, AAAI Press.
- "Inductive,
Evolutionary, and Neural Techniques for Discrimination: A Comparative
Study", with P. Pendharkar, Decision
Sciences, vol. 29, no. 4, 871-900, Fall, 1998.
- "Genetic
Learning through Simulation: An Investigation in Shop-Floor
Scheduling", with H. Aytug, and G.J.Koehler, Annals of Operations Research,
Issue on Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 78, p.
1-29, 1998.
- "Learning
by Objectives for Adaptive Shop-Floor Scheduling", with G.J.Koehler, Decision Sciences, vol. 29, no. 2,
347-376, 1998.
- "A
Markov Chain Analysis of Genetic Algorithms with 2x Cardinality",
with H.Aytug, and G.J. Koehler, European
Journal of Operational Research, vol. 96, no. 1, p. 195-201, 1997.
- "General
Cardinality Genetic Algorithms", Evolutionary Computation,
with G.J. Koehler and M.D. Vose, vol. 5, no. 4,
439-459, 1997.
- "A
Review of Machine Learning in Scheduling", with H. Aytug, G.J. Koehler and J.L. Snowdon,
IEEE Transaction in Engineering Management, 41, No. 2, May, 1994, pp.
165-171.
- "Object-Case
Retrieval for Intelligent Decision Support", with G.J. Koehler, in Proceedings
of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-95), Amsterdam, December,
1995.
- "An
Analysis of Non-Binary Genetic Algorithms with Cardinality 2v", with
G. J. Koehler, Complex Systems, 8, 1994, pp. 227-256.
Other refereed proceedings
- "Price
Dispersion in Online Markets: An Agent-Based Approach", with D.
Lundquist, in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2006).
- "Supply
Chain Coordination Under Vendor Managed Inventory
(VMI) Arrangement: A Decentralized Learning Approach", with K. Tharakunnel, in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop
on e-Business (WeB 2005).
- “Learning
to Order in Supply Networks: An Agent Modeling Study”, with Zhang, Y.. in Proceedings of the Agent 2004 Conference,
2004.
- “Alignment
and Validation in an Agent-based Model of Online B2C Auctions”, with
Mehta, K., Proceedings Agent 2003 Conference on Challenges in Social
Simulation, 2003.
- “Dynamics
of Expertise in Organizations: An Agent-based Modeling Exercise”,
with D’Souza, K., Proceedings Agent
2003 Conference on Challenges in Social Simulation, 2003.
- "Crossover
in Probability Spaces", with M.D. Troutt, Proceedings
of the International Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2000), July, 2000, AAAI Press.
- "Multi-Objective
Data-Mining using Genetic Search", Proceedings of the GECCO-2000
Workshop on Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms, July 2000, AAAI
press.
- "Combining
Genetic Algorithm Based Models for Financial Forecasting", with K.
Mehta, in Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation,
vol. 2, 1245-1252, Washington D.C., July, 1999, IEEE Press.
- "Representational
Semantics for Genetic Programming Based Learning in High-Frequency
Financial Data", with O.V. Pictet and G. Zumbach, in Proceedings of the Third Annual Genetic
Programming Conference (GP-98), 11-16, Madison, Wisconsin, July, 1998,
Morgan Kaufmann Pub.
- "Staged
Learning of Trading Rules Using Genetic Algorithms", with K. Mehta,
in Proceedings of the Third INFORMS Information Systems and Technology
Conference, Montreol, April, 1998.
- "Zip-Codes
for Direct Marketing Models using Geographic Information Systems",
with R. Sengupta, in Proceedings of the
Association of Information Systems Conference, 1997.
- "Data
Mining with Genetic Algorithms Under Cost Uncertainty", with A. Dejnarok, in Proceedings of the Decision Sciences
Institute National Conference, 1997.
- "Multi-Agent
Learning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence", with P. Pendharkar, in Proceedings of 2nd INFORMS
Conference on Information Systems and Technology, San Diego, CA, May
1997.
- "A
Comparison of Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Discriminant Analysis", with S. Bhattacharyya, in
Proceedings of the First Americas
Conference on Information Systems, Pittsburgh, August, 1995.
Technical Reports
- "Aggregation
and OLAP in Object Databases", Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois,
Chicago,
2003.
- “Agent-Based
Model of Price-Formation in Electronic Auctions”, with K. Mehta,
Information and Decision Sciences, University
of Illinois, Chicago, 2003.
- "Genetic
Learning for Multi-Objective Data-Mining Problems", Information and
Decision Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago,
2002.
- "Genetic
Learning of Trading Models", with O.V. Pictet,
Technical Document SIB.1996-07-08, Olsen and Associates, Research
Institute for Applied Economics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
1997.
- "An
Empirical Study of Learning Multi-Agent Coordination Strategies using
Genetic Search", with P.Pendharkar,
Department of Management, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1998.
- "A
Decision Support System Framework for Dynamic Scheduling", with H. Aytug, G.J. Koehler and J.L. Snowdon,
Decision and Information Sciences, University of Florida, 1993.
Research Funding
- Dynamic
Leader-Follower Problems: A New Theoretical Framework and a Machine
Learning based Computational Approach, with K. Tharakunnel
(co-PI), National Science Foundation (ECS-0601590), 2006 [$87,000].
- Networks
for Technological Innovation. Campus Research Board, University
of Illinois at Chicago, 1998, with Stellan
Ohlsson, Dept of Psychology, UIC, 2000
[$15,000].
- Agent
Based Simulation of Electronic Auction Markets. Center for Research in
Information Management, University
of Illinois at Chicago, 1999-2000 [$18,500].
- Data
Warehousing and OLAP in Object-Oriented Databases. Center for Research in
Information Management, University
of Illinois at Chicago, with V. Owei,
1998-99 [$23,000].
- Genetic
Learning of Trading Models in High-Frequency Financial Data, Olsen and
Associates, Research Institute for Applied Economics, Zurich, Switzerland,
1998 [$30,000].
- Research
Equipment Grant, Campus Research Board, University
of Illinois at Chicago, with A. Ouksel,
1998 [$6,000].
- Genetic
Learning for Direct Marketing Applications, Ratner
& Associates, New York, 1994-95 [$20,000].
- Design
of a Semantic Interface for Data Mining, IBM Corp., 1995 [$30,000].
Investigators: A. Ramaprasad, S. Bhattacharyya
and A. Rai.
- Summer
research grant, Office of Research and Development, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale,
Summer, 1995 [$6,000].
- Client-Server
Systems Simulation, Summer research grant, Pontikes Center for Management of Information, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale,
Summer, 1994, [$1,760].
- Establishing
a Point of Reference for Information Systems Disaster Recovery, Comdisco
Inc., [$50,000]. Investigators: A. Ramaprasad,
A. Rai and S. Bhattacharyya.
- Hybrid
Technologies for Pattern Induction in Data Mining (co-PI), University
Priorities and Interdisciplinary Initiative program, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, 1993 [$6,000].
- Summer
research fellowship, College of Business Administration, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, 1996, 1995, 1994 [$18,000].
- Research
and Analysis of Machine Learning for Dynamic Scheduling (G.J. Koehler, PI)
IBM CIM Technology Center, 1992-93.
