estevam at cs dot cmu dot edu
Selected Publications
Journals
- Hruschka, E. R. ; Garcia, A. J. T. ; Hruschka JR., ER ;
Ebecken, N. F. F. . On the Influence of Imputation in Classification:
Practical Issues. Journal
of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence,
2009.
- Hruschka JR., E. R.; Nicoletti, M. C.;
Oliveira, V. A.; Bressan GM . BayesRule:
a Markov-Blanket based procedure for extracting a set of probabilistic
rules from Bayesian classifiers. International Journal of Hybrid
Intelligent Systems, v. 5, p. 83-96, 2008.
- Cintra, M E ; Camargo, H. A.; Hruschka
JR., ER ; Nicoletti, M. C.. Automatic construction of fuzzy rule
bases: a further investigation into two alternative inductive approaches. Journal of Universal Computer Science,
2008 (to appear).
- Hruschka JR., E. R.; Ebecken, N. F. F., Towards
efficient variables ordering for Bayesian Networks Classifier
optimization. Data & Knowledge Engineering, v. 63, p.
258-269, 2007.
- Hruschka JR., E. R.; Hruschka, E. R.;
Ebecken, N. F. F. Bayesian
Networks for Imputation in Classification Problems. Journal of
Intelligent Information Systems, v. 29, p. 231-252, 2007.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. A Bayesian Imputation Method for a Clustering Genetic
Algorithm. Journal of Computational Methods In Sciences And
Engineering. IOS Press, 2008 (accepted for publication).
- Nicoletti, MC ; Figueira, L. B. ;
Hruschka JR., ER . Transferring Neural Network
Based Knowledge into an Exemplar-Based Learner. Neural
Computing & Applications, v. 16, p. 257-265, 2007.
- Hruschka Jr., E. R.; Santos, E. B. Dos ; Galvão, S. D. C.
O. An Optimized
Evolutionary Conditional Independence Bayesian Classifier Induction
Process. Neural Network World - International Journal on Neural
and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems, v.16, p. 555-572,
2007.
- Hruschka Jr., E. R.; Galvão, S. D. C. O. Fast
Conditional Independence-based Bayesian Classifier. Journal of
Computing Science and Engineering. , v.1, 162-176, 2007.
- Hruschka, E. R., Hruschka JR., ER, Covoes, T. F., Ebecken,
N. F. F., Bayesian
Feature Selection for Clustering Problems. Journal of
Information & Knowledge Management - JIKM. , v.6, p.1 - 13, 2006.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. A
Feature Selection Bayesian Approach for Extracting Classification Rules
with a Clustering Genetic Algorithm. Applied Artificial
Intelligence. London: , v.17, n.5-6, p.489 - 506, 2003.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. Missing
Values prediction with K2. Intelligent Data Analysis Journal
(IDA). Netherlands: , v.6, n.6, p.557 - 566, 2002
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
- CARLSON, A.; BETTERIDGE,
J.; WANG, R.; HRUSCHKA JR., ER and MITCHELL, T., Coupled Semi-Supervised
Learning for Information Extraction. To appear in the Proceedings of the Third ACM
International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2010.
- CARLSON, A. ; BETTERIDGE,
J. ; HRUSCHKA JR., ER ; MITCHELL, T., Coupling
Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations. In: NAACL
HLT 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing,
Bouder, 2009.
- Santos, E. B. ; Hruschka
JR., ER ; Nicoletti, MC . Conditional
independence based learning of Bayesian classifiers guided by a variable
ordering genetic search. In: The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (CEC 2007), 2007, Singapura. Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007). Los Alamitos : IEEE
Press, 2007. v. 1. p. 1.
- Bressan GM ;
Oliveira, Vilma Alves de ; Hruschka JR., ER ; Nicoletti, MC . Biomass BasedWeed-crop Competitiveness Classification
Using Bayesian Networks. In: The seventh International Conference
on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), 2007, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of The seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Design and Applications (ISDA 2007). Los Alamitos : IEEE Press, 2007. v.
1. p. 1.
- Pedro, SDS ; Hruschka
JR., ER ; Hruschka, E. R. ; Ebecken, N. F. F. . WNB: a Weighted Naïve
Bayesian Classifier. In: The seventh International Conference on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), 2007, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of The seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Design and Applications (ISDA 2007). Los Alamitos : IEEE Press, 2007. v.
1. p. 1.
- Bressan GM, Oliveira, V. A., Hruschka
JR., ER, Nicoletti, MC, A Probability Estimation
Based Strategy to Optimize the Classification Rule Set Extracted from
Bayesian Network Classifiers In: VIII Simp車sio Brasileiro de
Automação Inteligente - SBAI 2007, 2007, Florian車polis. Anais
do VIII Simp車sio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente - SBAI 2007.
- Hruschka JR., ER, Santos, E. B.,
Galvão, S. D. C. O., Variable Ordering in the
Conditional Independence Bayesian Classifier Induction Process: An
Evolutionary Approach In: 7th International Conference on Hybrid
Intelligent Systems, 2007, Kaiserslautern, Los Alamitos: IEEE Press, 2007.
- Hruschka JR., ER, Nicoletti, MC,
Oliveira, Vilma Alves de, Bressan GM., Markov-Blanket
Based Strategy for Translating a Bayesian Classifier into a Reduced Set of
Classification Rules In: 7th International Conference on Hybrid
Intelligent Systems, 2007, Kaiserslautern, Los Alamitos: IEEE Press, 2007.
- Santoro, D. M. ; Nicoletti, MC ;
Hruschka JR., ER . C-Focus-3: a C-Focus With a
New Heuristic Search Strategy. In: The seventh International
Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007),
2007, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of The seventh International Conference
on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007). Los Alamitos :
IEEE Press, 2007. v. 1. p. 1
- Cintra, M E ;
Camargo, Heloisa de Arruda ; Hruschka JR., ER ; Nicoletti, MC . Fuzzy Rule
Base Generation through Genetic Algorithms and Bayesian Classifiers - a
Comparative Approach. In: 7th International Conference on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), 2007, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Design and Applications (ISDA 2007). Los Alamitos : IEEE Press, 2007. v.
1. p. 1.
- Galvão, S. D. C. O. ;
Hruschka JR., ER . A Markov Blanket based strategy to optimize the
induction of Bayesian Classifiers when using Conditional Independence
Algoritms. In: the 9th International Conference on Data Warehousing
and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007), 2007, Rogensburg. Lecture Nontes on
Artificial Intelligence. Berlin : Springer, 2007. v. 1. p. 1.
- Hruschka JR., ER ; Camargo, H. A.;
Cintra, M E ; Nicoletti, M. C.,?BayesFuzzy: using
a Bayesian Classifier to Induce a Fuzzy Rule Base. In: IEEE
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE2007, 2007, Londres.
Proceedings of the the Annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy
Systems. Los Alamitos : IEEE Press, 2007.
- Hruschka, E. R. ; Covoes, T. F.;
Hruschka JR., E. R. ; Ebecken, N. F. F., Adapting
Supervised Feature Selection Methods for Clustering Tasks. In: 2007
Information Resources Management Association International Conference (the
18th Annual IRMA International Conference), Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
- Vivencio, D. P., Hruschka JR., E. R.,
Nicoletti, M. C., dos Santos, E. B. and Galvão, S. D. C. de O. Feature-weighted k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier. In:
the first IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2007),
Honolulu, Hawaii,
2007.
- Yoshida, M. L.; Hruschka JR., ER . Quasi-Incremental
Bayesian Classifier. In: ECML/PKDD-2007 International Workshop on Knowledge
Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams (IWKDUDS-2007), 2007, Vars車via.
Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD-2007 International Workshop on Knowledge
Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams (IWKDUDS-2007). Vars車via :
ECML/PKDD, 2007. v. 1. p. 1.
- Santos, E. B. Dos ;
Hruschka JR., ER . VOGA: Variable Ordering
Genetic Algorithm for Learning Bayesian Classifiers. In: 6th
International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS2006, 2006, Auckland. Proceedings of The Sixth International conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
(HIS06). Los Alamitos CA, USA : IEEE Press, 2006.
- Bertini JR, J. R. ;
Nicoletti, MC ; Hruschka JR., ER .
Two Variants of the Constructive Neural
Network Tiling Algorithm. In: 6th International Conference on
Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS2006, 2006, Auckland. Proceedings of The
Sixth International conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS06). Los Alamitos CA, USA : IEEE Press, 2006.
- Bertini JR, J. R. ;
Nicoletti, MC ; Hruschka JR., ER . A
Comparative Evaluation of Constructive Neural Networks Methods using PMR
and BCP as TLU Training Algorithms. In: IEEE International
Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2006, Taipei. Proceedings of
the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Los
Alamitos : IEEE Press, 2006
- Hruschka, E. R. ; Hruschka JR., E. R.
; Covoes, T. F. ; Ebecken, N. F. F., Feature
Selection for Clustering Problems: a Hybrid Algorithm that Iterates
Between k-means and a Bayesian Filter. In: HIS05 Fifth
International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2005, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of The Fifth International conference on Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS'05). Los Alamitos CA, USA : IEEE Press, 2005.
- Nicoletti, M. C. ; Figueira, L. B. ;
Hruschka JR., E. R., Initializing
an Exemplar Based Learning Process from a RuleNet Network. In:
HIS05 Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2005, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings of The Fifth International conference on Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS'05).. Los Alamitos, CA, USA : IEEE Press, 2005
- Hruschka JR., E. R. ; Hruschka, E. R.
; Ebecken, N. F. F., Applying Bayesian Networks
for Meteorological Data Mining. In: The Twenty-fifth SGAI
International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence, 2005, Cambridge. APPLICATIONS
AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XIII. Berlin: Springer-Verlag,
2005.
- Santoro, D. M. ; Hruschka JR., E. R. ;
Nicoletti, M. C., Selecting
feature subsets for inducing classifiers using a committee of
heterogeneous methods. In: IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics - SMC, 2005, Hawaii. Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2005). Los Alamitos , CA : The IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
- Hruschka, E. R., Hruschka JR., E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F., Missing Values Imputation for
a Clustering Genetic Algorithm. First International Conference on Natural
Computation (ICNC'05) and the Second International Conference on Fuzzy
Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05), Changsha, China, 2005. Lecture Notes on Computer Science ?LNCS 3612, p. 245-254.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. Feature
Selection by Bayesian Networks In: The Seventeenth Canadian Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, 2004, London, Ontario. Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, v.3060. p.370 ?379,
2004.
- Hruschka, E. R., Hruschka JR., E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. Towards
Efficient Imputation by Nearest-Neighbors: A Clustering-based Approach
In: 17th Joint Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AI'04,
2004, Cairns. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI 3339).. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, v.3339. p.513 ?525, 2004.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. A
feature selection Bayesian approach for a clustering genetic algorithm.
In: Data Mining IV - Management Information Systems Series - vol. 7
ed.Southampton - UK : WIT Press, 2003.
- Hruschka, E. R., Hruschka JR., E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. A
Nearest-Neighbor Method as a Data Preparation Tool for a Clustering
Genetic Algorithm In: 18th Brazilian Simposium on Databases (SBBD
2003), 2003, Manaus.?Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on
Databases / ACM SIGMOD Disk. Manaus: Editora da Universidade Federal do
Amazonas, v.1. p.319 ?327, 2003.
- Hruschka, E. R., Hruschka JR., E. R.,
Ebecken, N. F. F. Evaluating
a Nearest-Neighbor Method to Substitute Continuous Missing Values In:
The 16th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AI?3,
2003, Perth.?Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI
2903). p.723 - 734. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag: Springer-Verlag, v.2903.
p.723 ?734, 2003.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. Variable Ordering
for Bayesian Networks Learning from Data In: International Conference
on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2003,
Vienna, 2003.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. A Feature Selection Bayesian Approach for Extracting
Classification Rules with a Clustering Genetic Algorithm In: IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining 2002, First Workshop on Data
Cleaning and Preprocessing, 2002, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, 2002.?
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Hruschka, E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. A Data Preparation Bayesian Approach for a Clustering
Genetic Algorithm.? In: Frontiers in
Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Soft Computing Systems: Design,
Management and Applications ed.Amsterdam : IOS Press, v.87, p.
453-461.HIS2002 ?International Conference on Hibrid Intelligent Systems, Chile, 2002.
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Ebecken, N. F. F. Ordering
attributes for missing values prediction and data classification. In:
Data Mining III - Management Information Systems Series - vol. 6
ed.Southampton - UK : WIT Press, Data Mining 2002, Italy, 2002.
- Traleski, R., Brito, W., Hruschka JR., E.
R. Automação da Criação de Bases de Conhecimento
Bayesianas Triangulares. In: Quinto Encontro de Iniciação
Cient赤fica da Universidade do Vale do Para赤ba, São Jos?dos Campos, 2001.?
- Fialla, A. G., Murai, C. T. V., Piasecki,
C., Hruschka JR., E. R. Educação a Distância : Um
Estudo de suas Metodologias e Aplicações Pr芍ticas em Curitiba In: XX
Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, Curitiba, 2000.?
- Hruschka JR., E. R., Silva, W. T. Aprendizado e Infer那ncia Bayesiana no Diagn車stico de
Doenças Pulmonares In: III Simp車sio Nacional de Inform芍tica, Santa
Maria, 1998.