Selected Publications

Idea Papers
  1. Shichao Zhang. Shell-Neighbor Method And Its Application in Missing Data Imputation. Applied Intelligence, accepted in Nov 23, 2009: pp xx-xx.
  2. Shichao Zhang. Parimputation: From imputation and null-imputation to partially imputation. IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, Vol 9(1), 2008: 32-38.
  3. Xindong Wu, Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Efficient Mining of Both Positive and Negative Association Rules. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 22(2004), 3: 381-405.
  4. Shichao Zhang. Knowledge Discovery in Multi-Databases by Analyzing Local Instances. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, 2001.
  5. Shichao Zhang and Chengqi Zhang. IMC: A Method for Interval Calculus in Matrix. Knowledge and Information Systems, 1(2) (1999): 257-268.
Monographs
  1. Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Association Rules Mining: Models and Algorithms. Springer-Verlag Publishers in Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Volume 2307, p. 243, 2002. (SCI)
  2. Shichao Zhang, Chengqi Zhang and Xindong Wu. Knowledge Discovery in Multiple Databases. Springer, p. 233, ISBN: 1-85233-703-6, June 2004. (SCI)
  3. Qingfeng Chen, Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Secure Transaction Protocol Analysis: Models and Applications, Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Volume 5111, p. 250, Jul. 20, 2008. (http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-540-85073-1)
Personal-Author Journal Papers
  1. Shichao Zhang. Estimating Semiparametric Missing Values with Iterative Imputation. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (DWM), 6(3), 2010, pp 1-11.
  2. Shichao Zhang. Shell-Neighbor Method And Its Application in Missing Data Imputation. Applied Intelligence, accepted in Nov 23, 2009: pp xx-xx.
  3. Shichao Zhang. Cost-Sensitive Classification With Respect To Waiting Cost. Knowledge-Based Systems, 23 (2010): 369-378.
  4. Shichao Zhang. Information Enhancement for Data Mining. WIREs Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, 2011, pp xx-xx. (Invited paper)
  5. Shichao Zhang. Parimputation: From imputation and null-imputation to partially imputation. IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, Vol 9(1), 2008: 32-38.
  6. Shichao Zhang. Detecting Differences between Contrast Groups. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol 12, No 6, Nov, 2008: 739-745.
  7. Shichao Zhang. A Temporal Logic for Supporting Historical Database. Knowledge and Information Systems, 2(2000): 97-114.
  8. Shichao Zhang. A nearest neighborhood algebra for probabilistic databases. Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 4(1) 2000: 29-49.
  9. Shichao Zhang. Aggregation and maintenance for databases mining. Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 3(6) 1999: 475-490.
Good Journal or Conference Papers
  1. Xindong Wu, Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Database Classification for Multi-Database Mining. Information Systems, 30(2005): 71-88.
  2. Shichao Zhang, Chengqi Zhang and Xiaowei Yan. Post-mining: Maintenance of Association Rules by Weighting. Information Systems, Volume 28, Issue 7, October 2003: 691-707. (SCI)
  3. Xindong Wu, Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Efficient Mining of Both Positive and Negative Association Rules. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 22(2004), 3: 381-405. (SCI)
  4. Xiaofeng Zhu, Shichao Zhang, Zhi Jin, Zili Zhang, Zhuoming Xu. Missing Value Estimation for Mixed-Attribute Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, accepted in Jan, 2010: pp xx-xx (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2010.99).
  5. Yanchang Zhao and Shichao Zhang. Generalized Dimension-Reduction Framework for Recent-Biased Time Series Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 18 No 2 (2006): 231-244.
  6. Shichao Zhang, Zhenxing Qin. Charles Ling and Shengli Sheng, "Missing is Useful": Missing Values in Cost-sensitive Decision Trees. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17 No. 12 (2005): 1689-1693.
  7. Xindong Wu and Shichao Zhang. Synthesizing High-Frequency Rules from Different Data Sources. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2, March/April 2003: 353-367. (SCI)
  8. Shichao Zhang and Mohammed J. Zaki. Mining Multiple Data Sources: Local Pattern Analysis. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 12(2-3): 121-125 (2006).
  9. Shichao Zhang and Chengqi Zhang. Encoding Probability Propagation in Belief Networks. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), Vol. 32 No. 4(2002): 526-531. (SCI)
  10. Shichao Zhang and Chengqi Zhang. Anytime Mining for Multiuser Applications. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), Vol. 32 No. 4(2002): 515-521. (SCI)
  11. Shichao Zhang, Qingfeng Chen, Qiang Yang. Acquiring Knowledge from Inconsistent Data Sources Through Weighting. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 69 (2010): 779-799.
  12. Charles Ling, Qiang Yang, Jianning Wang and Shichao Zhang. Decision Trees with Minimal Costs. In: Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Machine Learning, Banff, Alberta, Canada , July 4-8, 2004.
  13. Xindong Wu, Chengqi Zhang and Shichao Zhang. Mining Both Positive and Negative Association Rules. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, Australia, July 2002: 658-665.
  14. Shichao Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Jilian Zhang and Zifang Huang. Identifying Follow-Correlation Itemset-Pairs. ICDM-06, Hongkong, 2006:
  15. Shichao Zhang, Feng Chen, Xindong Wu, Chengqi Zhang. Identifying bridging rules between conceptual clusters. KDD 2006: 815-820.
  16. Shengli Sheng, Charles X. Ling, Ailing Ni, and Shichao Zhang. Cost-Sensitive Test Strategies. Proceedings of 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), July 16 - 20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, pp482-487.