Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "Mining Interesting Contrast Sets." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE'12), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, March, 2012, pp. 14-21.
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "GENCCS: A Correlated Group Difference Approach to Contrast Set Mining." Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM'11), New York, U.S.A, September, 2011, pp. 140-154.
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "COSINE: A Vertical Group Difference Approach to Contrast Set Mining." Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'11), St. John's, Canada, May, 2011, pp. 359-371.
Nicolai, G. and Hilderman, R.J. "Algorithms for Evolving No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Playing Agents." Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'10), Valencia, Spain, October, 2010, pp. 20-32.
Nicolai, G. and Hilderman, R.J. "No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Agents Created with Evolutionary Neural Networks." Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'09), Milan, Italy, September, 2009, pp. 125-131.
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "An Empirical Study of Category Skew on Feature Selection for Text Categorization." Proceedings of the 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), Kelowna, Canada, May, 2009, pp. 249-252.
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "Categorical Proportional Difference: A Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization." In Roddick, J.F., Jiuyong, L., Christen, P., and Kennedy, P. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'08), Glenelg, Australia, November, 2008, pp. 201-208.
Simeon, M. and Hilderman, R.J. "Exploratory Quantitative Contrast Set Mining: A Discretization Approach." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'07), Patras, Greece, October, 2007, pp. 124-131.
Maciag, T., Hepting, D.H., and Hilderman, R.J. "Evaluation of a Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach to Interface Design." Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT'07), Jeju Island, Korea, October, 2007, pp. 409-416.
Beattie, B., Nicolai, G., Gerhard, D., and Hilderman, R.J. "Pattern Classification in No-Limit Poker: A Head-Start Evolutionary Approach." Proceedings of the 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'07), Montreal, Canada, May, 2007, pp. 204-215.
Maciag, T., Hepting, D.H., Slezak, D., and Hilderman, R.J. "Mining Associations for Interface Design." Proceedings of the International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'07), Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS'07), Toronto, Canada, May, 2007, pp. 109-117.
Mansuy, T. and Hilderman, R.J. "A Characterization of WordNet Features in Boolean Models for Text Classification." In Christen, P., Kennedy, P.J., Jiuyong, L., Simoff, S.J., and Williams, G.J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'06), Sydney, Australia, November, 2006, pp. 103-109.
Mansuy, T. and Hilderman, R.J. "Evaluating WordNet Features in Text Classification Models." Proceedings of the 19th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS'06), Melbourne Beach, U.S.A., May, 2006, pp. 568-573.
Hilderman, R.J. and Peckham, T. "A Statistically Sound Alternative Approach to Mining Contrast Sets." In Simoff, S.J., Williams, G.J., Galloway, J, and Kolyshkina, I. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'05), Sydney, Australia, December, 2005, pp. 157-172.
Mansuy, T.N. and Hilderman, R.J. "FormFormatter: A Software Tool for Generating Mouse-Optional User Interfaces in Visual Basic Applications." Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE'03), San Francisco, U.S.A., July, 2003, pp. 172-177.
Hilderman, R.J. "Predicting Itemset Sales Profiles with Share Measures and Repeat-Buying Theory." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'03), Hong Kong, March, 2003, pp. 789-795.
Hilderman, R.J., Peckham, T., and Totten, E.C.A. "A Keyboard-Based Graphical Web Browser Interface." Proceedings of the 16th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI'02) Volume 2, London, England, September, 2002, pp. 14-17.
Hilderman, R.J. "The Lorenz Dominance Order as a Measure of Interestingness in KDD." In Chen, M.-S., Yu, P.S., and Liu, B. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'02), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2002, pp. 177-185.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Evaluation of Interestingness Measures for Ranking Discovered Knowledge." In Cheung, D., Williams, G.J., and Li, Q. (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'01), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Hong Kong, April, 2001, pp. 247-259. Note: This paper was chosen as the "PAKDD'01 Most Influential Paper" by the PAKDD'11 Steering Committee. An award recognizing this achievement was presented at PAKDD'11 in Shenzhen, China in May, 2011.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Principles for Mining Summaries Using Objective Measures of Interestingness." Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'00), Vancouver, Canada, November, 2000, pp. 72-81.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Applying Objective Interestingness Measures in Data Mining Systems." In Zighed, D.A., Komorowski, J., and Zytkow, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'00), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Lyon, France, September, 2000, pp. 432-439.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Heuristic Measures of Interestingness." In Zytkow, J. and Rauch, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 1999, pp. 232-241.
Hilderman, R.J., Hamilton, H.J., and Barber, B. "Ranking the Interestingness of Summaries from Data Mining Systems." Proceedings of the 12th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS'99), Orlando, U.S.A., May, 1999, pp. 100-106. Note: This paper was chosen for the "Best Paper Award - Second Place" at the conference.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Heuristics for Ranking the Interestingness of Discovered Knowledge." In Zhong, N. (ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Beijing, China, April, 1999, pp. 204-209.
Hamilton, H.J., Hilderman, R.J., Li, L., and Randall, D.J. "Generalization Lattices." In Zytkow, J. and Quafafou, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Nantes, France, September, 1998, pp. 328-336.
Randall, D.J., Hamilton, H.J., and Hilderman, R.J. "Generalization for Calendar Attributes Using Domain Generalization Graphs." Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'98), Sanibel Island, U.S.A., May, 1998, pp. 177-184.
Randall, D.J., Hilderman, R.J., and Hamilton, H.J. "A Technique for Generalizing Temporal Durations in Relational Databases." Proceedings of the 11th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS'98), Sanibel Island, U.S.A., May, 1998, pp. 193-197.
Hilderman, R.J., Carter, C.L., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.J. "Mining Market Basket Data Using Share Measures and Characterized Itemsets." In Wu, X., Kotagiri, R., and Korb, K.B. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Research and Development in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Melbourne, Australia, April, 1998, pp. 159-173.
Hilderman, R.J., Li, L., and Hamilton, H.J. "Data Visualization in the DB-Discover System." Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'97), Newport Beach, U.S.A., November, 1997, pp. 474-477.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "A Formalized Methodology for Constructing Safe Multiphase Protocols." Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing (PACRIM'97), Victoria, Canada, August, 1997, pp. 924-929.
Hilderman, R.J., Hamilton, H.J., Kowalchuk, R., and Cercone, N. "Parallel Knowledge Discovery Using Domain Generalization Graphs." In Komorowski, J. and Zytkow, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Trondheim, Norway, June, 1997, pp. 25-35.
Hamilton, H.J., Hilderman, R.J., and Cercone, N. "Attribute-Oriented Induction Using Domain Generalization Graphs." Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'96), Toulouse, France, November, 1996, pp. 246-253.
Pang, W., Hamilton, H.J., Hilderman, R.J., and Goodwin, S.D. "Data Mining with Concept Generalization Graphs." Proceedings of the 9th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS'96), Key West, U.S.A., May, 1996, pp. 390-394.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Analysis of a Dynamic Voting Algorithm Based on Regeneration with Virtual Copies." Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC'96), Phoenix, U.S.A., March, 1996, pp. 385-391.
Kowalchuk, R.J, Hilderman, R.J., and Hamilton, H.J. "vnews: A Multicast, Multimedia News Service with Virtual Messages." Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC'96), Phoenix, U.S.A., March, 1996, pp. 44-50.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Performance Analysis of a Regeneration-Based Dynamic Voting Algorithm." Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'95), Bad Neuenahr, Germany, September, 1995, pp. 196-205.
Hilderman, R.J. and Hamilton, H.J. "Distributed Application Entity Groups: Analysis and Simulation Results." Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC'95), Phoenix, U.S.A., March, 1995, pp. 697-703.