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HDR Students

Students interested in pursuing research related to Text mining, Data Mining, Web Personalization and Ontology Learning towards Honours, Masters, or PhD degrees are welcome to contact me (y2.li@qut.edu.au) for further information.

 

 

John King (successful completion in 2004)

 

Degree

Master by Research

 

Thesis Title

Deep Web Collection Selection

 

Research Paper

J. King and Y. Li, Web based collection selection, in IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, Canada, 2003, 104-110.

Ben Murphy (successful completion in 2006)

 

Degree

Honours Student (1st class)

 

Thesis Title

Topic-oriented mining and reasoning

 

Research Paper

Y. Li, B. Murphy and N. Zhong, Mining Interesting Topics for Web Information Gathering and Web Personalization, in IEEE/ACM/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence. France, 2005, 305-308.

Xiaohui Tao (Daniel) (successful completion in 2006)

 

Degree

Honours Student (1st class)

 

Thesis Title

Information fusion

 

Research Paper

X. Tao, J. King and Y. Li, Information fusion with subject-based information gathering method for intelligent multi-agent models, in iiWAS2005, 861-870.

Jingtong Wu (successful completion in 2007)

 

Degree

Honours Student (1st class)

 

Thesis Title

Multi-tier Granule Mining Oriented Data Warehouse Model

 

Research Paper

Wanzhong Yang, Yuefeng Li, Jingtong Wu, Yue Xu: Granule mining oriented data warehousing model for representations of multidimensional association rules. IJIIDS 2(1): 125-145 (2008).

Dr Sheng-Tang Wu (successful completion in 2007 - Outstanding Doctoral Thesis)

 

Degree

PhD

 

Thesis Title 

Knowledge Discovery Model and its Application for Text Mining

 

Research Papers

[1] S.-T. Wu, Y. Li, Y. Xu, B. Pham and P. Chen, Automatic pattern taxonomy extraction for Web mining,  IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Beijing, 2004, 242-248.

[2] S.T. Wu, Y. Li and Y. Xu, Deploying Approaches for Pattern Refinement in Text Mining, 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, 2006, 1157-1161.

Dr John King (successful completion in 2008 )

 

Degree

PhD

 

Thesis Title

Search Engine Content Analysis

 

Research papers

[1] J. King, Y. Li, X. Tao and R. Nayak, Mining world knowledge for analysis of search engine content, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: an international journal, 2007, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp.233-253.

[2]J. King, Y. Li, P.D. Bruza and R. Nayak, Preliminary investigations into ontology-based collection selection, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Vol 9, No. 2 pp 33-40, 2006.

Dr Susan Zhou (successful completion in 2009)

 

Degree

PhD

 

Thesis Title 

Rough Set Based Reasoning and Pattern Mining for Information Filtering

 

Research papers

[1] Xujuan Zhou, Yuefeng Li, Peter Bruza, Sheng-Tang Wu, Yue Xu, Raymond Y. K. Lau: Using Information Filtering in Web Data Mining Process. Web Intelligence 2007: 163-169.

[2] Yuefeng Li, Xujuan Zhou, Peter Bruza, Yue Xu, Raymond Y. K. Lau: A two-stage text mining model for information filtering. CIKM 2008: 1023-1032.

Dr Daniel Tao (successful completion in 2009 – Deans Award for Academic Excellence)

 

Degree

PhD

 

Thesis Title

ONTOLOGY MINING FOR WEB INFORMATION GATHERING

 

Research Paper

[1] X. Tao, Y. Li, N. Zhong, and R. Nayak. Ontology mining for personalized web information gathering. IEEE/WIC/ACM international Conference on Web Intelligence, Silicon Valley, USA, 2007, pages 351-358

[2] X. Tao, Y. Li, and R. Nayak, A knowledge retrieval model using ontology mining and user profiling, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2008, Volume 15 ,  Issue 4, 313-329.  

[3] X. Tao, and Y. Li, A User Profiles Acquiring Approach Using Pseudo-Relevance Feedback, in RSKT 2009: 658-665. (Best Student Paper)

[4] X. Tao, Y. Li, and N. Zhong, A Personalized Ontology Model for Web Information Gathering, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1 December 2009.

Dr Wanzhong Yang (successful completion in 2009)

 

Degree

PhD

 

Thesis Title

Granule based Knowledge Representation for intra and inter Association Rule Mining

 

Research paper

[1] Y. Li, W. Yang and Y. Xu, Multi-Tier Granule Mining for Representations of Multidimensional Association Rules, 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, 2006, 953-958.

[2] W. Yang, Y. Li, J. Wu and Y. Xu, Granule Mining Oriented Data Warehousing Model for Representations of Multidimensional Association Rules, International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2008, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 125-145.

Current HDR Students

Mrs Danqing Zhang

Degree

PhD, part time

Thesis Title 

Context Based Image Retrieval of Traditional Chinese Paintings

Research Papers

D. Zhang, B. Pham and Y. Li, Modelling Traditional Chinese Paintings for Content-Based Image Classification and Retrieval, in 10th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, 2004, 258-264.

Mr Abdulmohsen Algarni

Degree

PhD, full time

Thesis Title 

Mining Negative Relevance Feedback for Adaptive Information Filtering

Research Papers

[1] Abdulmohsen Algarni, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu, Raymond Y. K. Lau: An effective model of using negative relevance feedback for information filtering. CIKM 2009: 1605-1608.

[2] Yuefeng Li, Abdulmohsen Algarni, Sheng-Tang Wu, Yue Xue: Mining Negative Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering. Web Intelligence 2009: 606-613.

[3] Abdulmohsen Algarni, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu: Adaptive Information Filtering Based on PTM Model (APTM). Web Intelligence/IAT Workshops 2008: 37-40.

Mr Jingtong Wu

Degree

PhD, full time

Thesis Title 

Granule mining oriented data warehousing

Research Papers

[1] Jingtong Wu, Yuefeng Li: Granule Oriented Data Warehouse Model. RSKT 2009: 255-263.

[2] Wanzhong Yang, Yuefeng Li, Jingtong Wu, Yue Xu: Granule mining oriented data warehousing model for representations of multidimensional association rules. IJIIDS 2(1): 125-145 (2008)

Mr Luepol Pipanmaeraporn

 

Degree

PhD, full time

Thesis Title 

Constraint-based Pattern Mining for Knowledge Discovery in Texts

Research Papers

 

Mr Nawaf Alkharboush

 

Degree

PhD, full time

Thesis Title 

A Data Mining Approach to Improve the automated Quality of Data

Research Papers

 

Mr Yan She

 

Degree

Master by Research, full time

Thesis Title 

Personalized Ontology for Enhancing the Performance of Web Search

Research Papers