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| NEW YORK March 28-30, 2005 | |||
| DAY 1: MONDAY 3/28/05 | |||
| Conference Registration 3:00-5:00 PM |
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| Welcoming Reception 5:00-6:00 PM |
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| OPENING KEYNOTE 6:00-7:00 PM | |||
| Uncovering Interaction Effects Jerome Friedman, Stanford University |
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| DAY 2: TUESDAY 3/29/05 | |||
| Registration and Continental Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM |
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| GENERAL SESSION 8:30-9:00 AM |
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| Welcoming Remarks Dan Steinberg, CEO Salford Systems |
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| GENERAL SESSION 9 :00-10:00 AM |
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| "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes -- and How to
Avoid Them" John Elder, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| Concurrent Sessions 10:00-11:00 AM |
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| Business Application Jeff Weiner Carlson Marketing Group "Developing a Deeper Understanding of Customer Satisfaction with MARS" |
Biomedical Application Shenghan Lai Johns Hopkins University Medical School "MARS, CART, TreeNet/MART for Epidemiological Research: Identifying Relationships That Cannot Be Identified In Any Other Way" |
Industrial Application Dennis Newhart International Steel Group "Using CART to Analyze and Improve Operating and Quality Issues in the Steel Industry with Perspectives on Six Sigma" |
Actuarial Application Inna Kolyshkina PricewaterhouseCoopers "Enhancing Generalised Linear Models with Data Mining" |
| Morning Break 11:00-11:30 AM |
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| Concurrent Sessions 11:30-12:30 PM |
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| Business Application Glenn Hofmann Household International "Marketing Strategies for Retail Customers Based on Predictive Behavior Models" |
Biomedical Application George Towfic Clarke College "Generating a Connected Weighted Graph for the Analysis of HIV Data Using CART 5" |
Industrial Application Linus Nilsson Capgemini "Fault Detection in Industrial Process Plants using CART and MARS" |
Actuarial Application Mitchell Prevett PricewaterhouseCoopers Richard Brookes Taylor Fry Consulting Actuaries "Statistical Case Estimation Modelling - An Overview of the NSW WorkCover Model" |
| Lunch Break 12:30-1:30 PM |
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| Concurrent Sessions 1:30-2:30 PM |
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| Business Application Kasindra Maharaj and Robert Ceurvorst Synovate, Inc. "Applied Prediction Problems in Financial Services: A Comparison of TreeNet®, Random Forests® and CART®" |
Biomedical Application Wayne Danter Critical Outcome Technologies, Inc. "A Comparison of Hybrid CART/TreeNET – Generalized Additive Model and Support Vector Machine Tools for Drug Discovery and Pre-Clinical Drug Development" |
Industrial Application Deborah Burr Ohio State University School of Public Health "Models for Recurrence of Low Back Disorder in Industry: A Comparison of Logistic Regression and CART" |
Actuarial Application Lijia Guo University of Central Florida "Data Mining Applications in Health Insurance Pricing and Underwriting" |
| Concurrent Sessions 2:30-3:30 PM |
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| Business Application Hans Aigner DATALAB USA "How to Exploit the Homogeneity of Data or the Homogeneity of Past Experience in High Volume Direct Marketing Programs" |
Biomedical Application Carrie Salafia Columbia University School of Public Health "Umbilical Cord Length, Other Placental Growth Measures, Placental Weight and Birthweight" |
Financial/Investing Whitney W. Olsen, MD Olsen Capital Management "Does Using CART Need to be Complex? Or, Exploiting the Predictive Structure of Financial Time Series in the Presence of Intermittent High Order Chaos" |
Actuarial Application Charles Pollack Suncorp Metway "PRIM for Exploratory Analysis In the Insurance Industry: A Comparison To CART" |
| Afternoon Break 3:30-4:00 PM |
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| Concurrent Sessions 4:00-5:00 PM |
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| Highlights of 2004 |
Biomedical Application Brydon Grant University of Buffalo Medical School "Model Drift in a Predictive Model of Obstructive Sleep Apnea" |
Financial/Accounting Arnab Dey and Ritesh Aggarwal Inductis "Application of CART in Determining Reserve Levels for Customer Loyalty Points" |
Actuarial Application Sergey Bakin Suncorp Metway "CART Plus Linear Models for Actuarial Applications" |
| GENERAL SESSION 5:00-6:00 PM |
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| Data Preparation and Data Mining: Steps You Should
and Should Not Attempt John Trimble, Wells Fargo Bank, Paul Chu,LPJ Analytic Inc. and Mikhail Golovnya, Salford Systems |
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| Cocktail Reception 6:00-7:00 PM |
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| DAY 3: WEDNESDAY 3/30/2005 | |||
| Registration and Continental Breakfast 7:30-8:30 AM |
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| GENERAL SESSION 8:30-9:30 AM |
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| Data Mining Implementation: Using CART to Develop
a Diagnostic Tool for Erectile Dysfunction Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer |
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| Concurrent Sessions 9:30-10:30 AM |
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| Business Application Ali Moazami MortgageIT Holdings Inc. Shaolin Li BlackRock "Mortgage Business Transformation Program using CART-based Joint Risk Modeling with practical discussion of CART/TreeNet" |
Biomedical Application U. Suryanarayana Murty Indian Institute of Chemical Technology "Application of CART for the Control of Bacroftian Filariasis in Andara Pradesh, India" |
Financial/Economics Dominique Haughton Bentley College "Determinants of Market Induced Vulnerability: Vietnamese Household Example" |
Insurance Application Lynn Garbee IntelliClaim, Inc. "Use of Data-Mining (CART) and Rule-based Methods to Infer Claims Payment Policy from the Analysis of Paid Claims" |
| Morning Break 10:30-11:00 AM |
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| Concurrent Sessions 11:00-12:00 AM |
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| Business Application John Trimble Wells Fargo Bank "Improving Customer Retention by Identifying Characteristics of Auto Loan Prepayers using Mars" |
Biomedical Application Ramana V. Davuluri Human Cancer Genetics Program, The Ohio State University "Identifying Estrogen Receptor a Target Genes Using Integrated Computational Genomics and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Microarray" |
Financial/Economics Paolo Manasse International Monetary Fund "Rules of Thumb" for Sovereign Debt Crises |
Actuarial/Fraud
Detection Louise Francis Francis Analytics and Actuarial Data Mining, Inc. "Treenet vs Neural Networks: Insurance Fraud Data" |
| Concurrent Sessions 12:00-1:00 PM |
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| Business Application David Poole AT&T Labs - Research "An Out-of-Memory Implementation of the PRIM Procedure for Massive Datasets" |
Biomedical Application Marsha Wilcox Boston University Medical School "Using CART and TreeNet to Discern Models in Genetics: Alzheimer Disease, Alcoholism and Cocaine Addiction" |
Environmental Falk Huettmann Institute of Arctic Biology. University of Alaska-Fairbanks "Experiences when applying MARS and CART in the Disciplines of Biodiversity, Conservation and Wildlife Modeling: The GIS Link" |
Fraud Detection Kevin Walsh Inductis "Modeling for Fraud Detection and Prevention" |
| Lunch Break 1:00-2:00 PM |
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| Concurrent Sessions 2:00-3:00 PM |
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| Business Application Don Cozine BarnesandNoble.com "CART for Prim-like Analysis to Augment Predefined Market Zones, Boost Response Rates for Direct Mail Campaigns and to Identify and Exclude Irrelevant Subsections of a Heterogeneous Database from Modeling" |
Biomedical Application Laurent Briollais Mount Sinai Hospital "Comparison of Several Tree-based Methods to Detect Complex Gene Interactions" |
Methodology Mikhail Golovnya Salford Systems "Novel and Creative Use of Data Mining to Win Two Top Data Mining Competitions" |
Actuarial/Text Mining Inna Kolyshkina PricewaterhouseCoopers "Text Mining Challenges and TreeNet: Impact of Textual Information in Claims Cost Prediction" |
| GENERAL SESSION 3:00-4:00 PM |
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| What's Next in Data Mining? | |||