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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at University of Regina. My supervisor is Dr. JingTao Yao. My research interests include Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Data Mining.

Publications

Journal

1. H.H. Li, Y. Zhang, F. Liu, G. Dai, The Design and Implementation of Railway Freight Applications on China's Railway Freight Data Grid Platform, JDCTA: International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, 6(18), pp1-9, 2012.

2. Y. Zhang, L.M. Meng, F. Liu, H.H. Li, P. Brezany, Decomposition of Association Rules Mining Process and Analysis of the Intermediate Results, Journal of Computational Information Systems, 7(10), pp3606-3613, 2011.

3. Y. Zhang, L.M. Meng, F. Liu, H.H. Li, P. Brezany, Towards the Optimization of Data Mining Execution Process in Distributed Environments, Journal of Computational Information Systems, 7(8), pp2931-2939, 2011.

4. Y. Zhang, L.M. Meng, H.H. Li, A. Woehrer, P. Brezany, WS-DAI-DM: An Interface Specification for Data Mining in Grid Environments, Journal of Software, 6(6), pp953-960, 2011.

Conference

1. Y. Zhang, Optimizing Gini Ciefficient of Probabilistic Rough Set Regions using Game-Theoretic Rough Sets, accepted by CCECE'13

2. Y. Zhang, J.T. Yao, Rule Measures Tradeoff Using Game-theoretic Rough Sets, Proceedings of the International Conference on Brian Informatics (BI'12), Macau, China, Dec 4-7, 2012, LNCS 7670, pp348-359.

3. P. Brezany, Y. Zhang, I. Janciak, P. Chen, S. Ye, An Elastic OLAP Cloud Platform, DASC 2011, Proceedings of International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, pp356-363, Dec 2011. THE BEST CONFERENCE PAPER AWARD.

4. Y. Zhang, H.H. Li, G. Dai, The Design and Implementation of OGSA-DAI-DM, CSEEE 2011, Communications in Computer and Information Science 158, pp173-179, Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.

5. Y. Zhang, H.H. Li, A. Woehrer, P. Brezany, G. Dai, Decomposing Data Mining by a Process-oriented Execution Plan, AICI 2010, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6319, pp97-106. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.

6. Y. Zhang, A. Woehrer, P. Brezany, H.H. Li, G. Dai, Towards China's Railway Freight Transportation Information Grid, MIPRO 2009, Proceedings of the International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics,Opatija, Croatia, May 2009.

7. A. Woehrer, Y. Zhang, E. Dar, P. Brezany, Unboxing Data Mining via Decomposition in Operators - Towards Macro Optimization and Distribution, KDIR 2009, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, pp243-248, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, Oct 2009.

Book Chapter

1. J.T. Yao, Y. Zhang, Game-Theoretic Rough Sets for Three-way Decision, in X. Y. Jia & L. Shang (eds.), The Theory and Applications of Three-way Decision, pp103-115, 2012.

Education and Work Experiences

1. 2005.09 to 2011.12, study in School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University

2. 2000.07 to 2005.06, work in Computer Center in Urumqi Railway Department, XinJiang Autonomous Region.

Awards

1. Winter 2013, John Spencer Middleton & Jack Spencer Gordon Middleton Scholarship

2. Fall 2012, University of Regina Graduate Studies Scholarships (GSS)

3. Spring 2012, University of Regina Graduate Studies Scholarships (GSS)

4. Winter 2012, University of Regina Graduate Studies Scholarships (GSS)

5. 2011.04 to 2011.06, Technology Grants East, Central, South Asia Scholarship financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research in the frame of the EURASIA PACIFIC UNINET