Recent Publications
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
**** Please, cite all journals and conference
proceedings containing articles found on this page you make use of, in your own
work. ****************************
Mabroukeh, Nizar and
C.I. Ezeife, A Taxonomy of
Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR),
Vol. 43, No. 1, Article 3, pp 3:1 – 3:41, November 2010.
C.I. Ezeife and
Yi Liu, “Fast
Incremental Mining of Web Sequential Patterns with PLWAP Tree”, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal (DAMI), Vol. 19, pp 376 –
418, Springer Verlag publishers, 2009, DOI
number10.1007/s10618-009-0133-6, (http://www.springerlink.com/content/?k=+doi%3a(10.1007%2fs10618-009-0133-6)
or our copy of DOI and Figure erratum.
C.I. Ezeife, Jingyu Dong, A.K. Aggarwal, “SensorWebIDS: A
Web Mining Intrusion Detection System", Vol
4, issue 1, 2008, pp. 97-120, of
the International Journal of Web Information Systems(IJWIS), Emerald Group
Publishing Limited,
C.I. Ezeife. and Mostafa
Monwar, “A Plwap-Based
Algorithm For Mining Frequent Sequential Stream Patterns, International Journal
of Information” Technology and Intelligent Computing (ITIC), Vol.2,
No.1, 2007, pp.89-116, endorsed by IEEE Computing Intelligence Society
(http://itic.wshe.lodz.pl).
C.I. Ezeife and
Yi Lu, “Mining
Web Log sequential Patterns with Position Coded Pre-Order Linked WAP-tree”,
the International Journal of Data
Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), Vol. 10, pp. 5-38, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, June 2005. To download the source codes attached to this
paper, click on: “Research
Source Codes” click
on “PLWAP and
WAP and GSP codes” and “Webcleaner
code for cleaning real web logs ”. May also download some of the data
used for experimentation from experiment data under one
million records or
experiment
data over a million records.
C.I. Ezeife and
Timothy E. Ohanekwu, “Use of Smart Tokens in
Cleaning Integrated Warehouse Data”, the International Journal of
Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1-22, Ideas Group
Publishers, April-June 2005.
Ajumobi Udechukwu, Christie Ezeife, Ken
Barker, “Independent De-Duplication in Data Cleaning”, Journal of
Information and Organizational Sciences (JIOS), Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 53 –
68, University of Zagreb, 2005.
Ezeife,
C.I, "Selecting and
Materializing Horizontally Partitioned Warehouse Views", Elsevier
journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Vol. 36, No. 2, pp.
185-210, 2001.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Anna Meng, "Accommodating Scalability in Warehouse
View Selection Problem Using Partial Combined Cube Lattice", Transaction
in International Information Systems: System Analysis and Development, Theory
and Practice,
Ezeife,
C.I, “Optimizing the
Partition-Selection Scheme for Warehouse Views”, Transaction
in International Information Systems: System Analysis and Development, Theory
and Practice, University of Economics in Wroclaw, Poland, vol. 1999, No. 1,
1999.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, "Distributed Object Based
Design: Vertical Fragmentation of Classes", International
Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DPDS), Vol. 6, No. 4,
pp. 327-360, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
October 1998.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, “A Comprehensive Approach
to Horizontal Class Fragmentation in a Distributed Object Based System”, International
Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases(DPDS) , Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 247-273, July 1995.
*** 3 other journal
articles done 1990 – 1991.
BOOKS
C.I. Ezeife,
“Problem Solving and Programs with C", a book published by Nelson
Thomson Learning Ltd., August 2010, 3rd edition (used to teach C programming to
1st year class), isbn
0-17-633082-8. Book comes with
electronic copy of laboratory manual, book chapter programs, and laboratory
solutions. Test and quiz samples are part of the book as well. Instructors and
students have a lot of resource materials for teaching and self study. To
recommend book for your class or to order, send mail to book publishers via
Rosalind.Wright@thomson.com or to the author via cezeife@uwindsor.ca.
C.I. Ezeife, "Problem Solving and Programs with C", a
book published by Nelson Thomson Learning Ltd., August 2003, 2nd edition (used
to teach C programming to 1st year class), isbn
01764119X. Book comes with electronic copy of laboratory manual, book chapter
programs, laboratory solutions and lecture slides.
C.I. Ezeife, "Problem Solving and Programs with C", a
book published by Nelson Thomson Learning Ltd., August 2002, first edition
(used to teach C programming to 1st year class), isbn
0-17-623040-8.
Ezeife,
Christie I. "Problem Solving,
Programs, and Computers", published by Harcourt Brace of
REFEREED CONFRENCE PUBLICATIONS
Rob Whent, Dragana Martinovic, C.I. Ezeife , Sabbir Ahmed,
Yanal Alahmad and Tamanna
Mumu, “School Age
Children’s Cognition Identification By Mining Integrated Computer Games
Data”, to appear in the proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2012)
16 – 18 April, 2012 in Porto, Portugal.
Mabroukeh, Nizar and C.I. Ezeife, “Ontology-based Web
Recommendation from Tags”, in the proceedings of the Second Workshop
in Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DeSWeb2011)of
the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),
Olalekan Kadri and C.I. Ezeife, “Mining Uncertain Web Log
Sequences with Access History Probabilities”, in the proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on
Applied Computing, ACM SAC 2011, DTTA - Database Theory, Technology, and
Application, Tunghai University, TaiChung,
Taiwan, March 21 – 24, 2011, pp. 1064-1065.
C.I. Ezeife,
Md. Zillur Rahman, “NeuDetect:
A Neural Network Data Mining Wireless Network Intrusion Detection System”,
in the proceedings of the ACM 14th International Database
Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS10), pp. 38-41, Montreal, QC,
CANADA , 16-18 August, 2010.
Mabroukeh, Nizar, Ezeife, C.I.
2009. “Semantic-rich
Markov Models for Web Prefetching”, in the
proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Workshops (Workshop on
Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'09)), pp. 465 - 470,
Mabroukeh, Nizar, Ezeife, C.I.
2009. “Using
Domain Ontology for Semantic Web Usage Mining and Next Page Prediction”,
in the proceedings of the18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), pp. 1677 – 1680, November 2-6, 2009,
C.I. Ezeife, Kashif Saeed, and Dan Zhang, “Mining Very Long Sequences in
Large Databases with PLWAPLong”, in
proceedings of the 13th ACM sponsored International Database
Engineering & Applications Symposium Cetraro,
C.I. Ezeife and Dan Zhang, “TidFP: Mining Frequent Patterns in Different Databases with
Transaction ID”, in the
LNCS proceedings of the 11th international conference on Data
Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 09), Linz, Austria, Springer Verlag, pp. 125 – 137, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, 2009.
Estella Annoni, C.I. Ezeife, “Modelling
Web Documents as Objects for Automatic Web Content Extraction”, in
the proceedings of the ACM/LNCS sponsored 11th International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 09), pp. 91- 100, May 6-10,
2009 in Milan, Italy.
C.I. Ezeife,
Maxwell Ejelike, Akshai Aggarwal, “WIDs:
A Sensor-Based Online Mining Wireless Intrusion Detection System”,
proceedings of the Twelfth ACM/IEEE International Database Engineering & Applications
Symposium (IDEAS08), 2008, pp. 255-262, 2008, September, Coimbra, Portugal.
Ahmedur Rahman, C.I. Ezeife, A.K. Aggarwal, “WiFi Miner: An Online Apriori-Infrequent
Based Wireless Intrusion Detection System”, proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGKDD '08 International
Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD, 2008), pp. 77 – 85, 24th August 2008,
C.I. Ezeife, Monwar Mostafa, “SSM
: A Frequent Sequential Data Stream Patterns Miner”, proceedings of the IEEE
Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007),
Lichun
Zhu, C.I. Ezeife, R.D. Kent, “Generic Query ToolKit: A Query Interface Generator Integrating Data
Mining”, proceedings of the 2007 Information Resources Management
Association International Conference (IRMA07), Vancouver B.C.,
Jing Li and C.I. Ezeife,
“Cleaning Web
Pages for Effective Web Content Mining”, proceedings of the 17th
International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA
2006,
C.I..
Ezeife and Yi Lu and Yi Liu, “PLWAP Sequential Mining:
Open Source Code paper”, proceedings of the Open Source Data Mining Wrokshop on
Frequent Pattern Mining Implementations, in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD, Chicago,
IL, U.S.A., 2005. To download the source codes attached to this paper, click on
“PLWAP and WAP
and GSP codes” and “Webcleaner
code for cleaning real web logs ”. May also download some of the data
used for experimentation from experiment data under one
million records or
experiment
data over a million records.
C.I.. Ezeife and Min Chen, “Mining Web Sequential Patterns
Incrementally with Revised PLWAP Tree”, proceedings of the fifth International Conference
on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2004)
C.I. Ezeife and
Min Chen, “Incremental
Mining of Web Sequential Patterns Using PLWAP Tree on Tolerance MinSupport”,
proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Database
Engineering and Applications Symposium, Coimbra,
Agyemang, Malik and C.I. Ezeife. “LSC-Mine: Algorithm for Mining
Local Outliers”. Proceedings of the 15th Information Resource
Management Association (IRMA) International Conference,
Yi Lu and C.I. Ezeife, "Position Coded Pre-Order
Linked WAP-Tree for Web Log Sequential Pattern Mining", proceedings of
the seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
Seoul, Korea, April 30-May 2, 2003, published in LNCS by Springer Verlag, , pp. 337-349.
C.I. Ezeife and A.O. Udechukwu, "Data Position and
Profiling in Domain-Independent Warehouse Cleaning", proceedings of
the 5th acm International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems, ICEIS 2003, April 23-26, 2003, Angers, France, published
in LNCS by Springer Verlag, Vol. 1, pp. 232-238.
C.I. Ezeife and Pinakpani Dey, "Incremental Horizontal
Fragmentation of Database Calss Objects",
proceedings of the 5th acm International Conference
on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2003, April 23-26, 2003, Angers,
France, published in LNCS by Springer Verlag, Vol. 1,
pp. 239-245.
Timothy E. Ohanekwu and C.I. Ezeife, "A Token-Based Data Cleaning
Technique for Data Warehouse Systems", proceedings of the
International Workshop on Data Quality in Cooperative Information Systems, held
in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT
2003), Siena, Italy, January 10-11, 2003, pp. 21-26.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Yue Su, "Mining Incremental Association
Rules with Generalized FP-tree", proceedings of the fifteenth
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2002, holding May
25-29, 2002, Calgary, Canada, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) by Springer Verlag, pp. 147-160.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Yi Liu and Chungsheng Liu and Ingo Schmitt,
"WIG - A Warehouse Integrator Code Generator", proceedings of
the 2002 NSF/NSERC conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2002.
Zhou, Zequn and Ezeife, C.I., "A Low-Scan Incremental
Association Rule Maintenance Method", proceedings of the
fourteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2001,
holding June 7 to June 9, 2001, Ottawa, Canada, published in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer Verlag, pp.
26-35.
Xu,
Mei and Ezeife, C.I., "Maintaining Horizontally
Partitioned Warehouse Views", proceedings of the second
international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak'00,
Greenwich, U.K, DEXA conference, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) by Springer Verlag, Sept. 4-6, 2000,
pp. 126-133.
Ezeife,
C.I and Jian Zheng, "Dynamic Database Object
Horizontal Fragmentation", Proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Information Systems Development - Methods and Tools,
Theory and Practice, Boise, Plennum Press
Publishers, August 1999, pp. 51-60.
Ezeife,
C.I and Jian Zheng, "Measuring the Performance of
Database Object Horizontal Fragmentation Schemes", Proceedings of the 3rd International Database Engineering and
Applications Symposium (IDEAS 99), IEEE Publication,
Ezeife,
C.I, and Baksh, S., A Partition-Selection Scheme
for Warehouse Views , Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on
Computing and Information (ICCI 98) , Winnipeg, Canada, IEEE Computer
Society publication, pp. 9-16, June 17-20, 1998..
Ezeife,
C.I, A Uniform Approach for
Selecting Views and Indexes in a Data Warehouse, Proceedings of the 2nd
International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 97),
pp. 151-160, IEEE Publication, Montreal, August 1997.
Ezeife,
C.I, Accommodating
Dimension Hierarchies in a Data Warehouse View/Index Selection Scheme, Proceedings
of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Development -
Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, pp. 195-211, Boise, Plennum Press Publishers, August 1997.
Ezeife, C.I. and Ken.
Barker, Vertical
Fragmentation For Advanced Object Models in a
Distributed Object Based System, Proceedings of the Seventh International
Conference on Computing and Information, IEEE Publishers, Volume 8, pp.
613-632, July 1995.
Ezeife,
C.I., Class Fragmentation in a Distributed Object Based
System, A thesis presented to the University of Manitoba in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in Computer Science, March 1995.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, Horizontal
Class Fragmentation for Advanced Object Models in a Distributed Object-Based
System, In the Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on
Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 25-32, Nov. 7-9,
1994.
Ezeife
C.I. and Ken Barker, Vertical Class Fragmentation in a
Distributed Object-Based System, In the Proceedings of the Second
International Symposium on Applied Corporate Computing, ISACC", Texas
A \& M University (publisher), Monterrey, Mexico Volume 2, pp. 43-52, Number
1, 1994.
Ezeife,
C.I. and K.en Barker, Horizontal Class Fragmentation in
Distributed Object Based Systems, Proceedings of the Second Biennial
European Joint Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, ASME
Publications, London, England, Vol. 65, No.5, pp. 225-235, June 1994.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, Vertical
Class Fragmentation in a Distributed Object Based System, Technical
Report - Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Number: TR
94-02 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, April 1993.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, Horizontal
Class Fragmentation in a Distributed Object Based System, Technical
Report - Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Number: TR
93-04, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, October 1993.
Ezeife,
C.I. and Ken Barker, A
Distributed Object Based Design Technique, Proceedings of the First
Annual Mid-Continent Information Systems Conference, Database Research
Group, NDU Fargo (publisher), Volume 1, pp. 78-90, Fargo, USA, May 1993.
OTHER REFEREED CONFRENCE PUBLICATIONS FROM WORK IN OUR LAB
Mohammed Shariful Islam and C.I. Ezeife,
“Data Warehouse Stream View Update with Hash Filter”, accepted but
not delivered to the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and its
Applications (ICCSA-2004) June 28-30, 2004, San Diego .
Kashif
Bhutta, "Calculating Aggregates with
Range-Encoded Bit-Sliced Index", Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL
'02), , IEEE, Springer Verlag Publication,
PUBLICATIONS IN SUBMISSION OR IN
PREPARATION
C.I. Ezeife, Titas Mutsuddy,
“
Towards Comparative Mining of Web
Document Objects with NFA: WebOMiner System”, submitted to IJDWM, Feb. 2012.
C.I. Ezeife, Dan Zhang, “Mining Multiple Related Tables
Using Object-oriented Model”, journal paper under preparation.
Ritu Chaturvedi
and C. I. Ezeife, “Data mining techniques for
design of ITS student models”, submitted to the EDM 2012: The Fifth International Conference on Educational Data
Mining 19-21 June 2012 in Chania,
C.I.
Ezeife, Ahmedur Rahman, A.K. Aggarwal, “No
Training Data Mining Wireless Network Intrusion Detection Systems”, journal
paper under preparation.
Ezeife,
C.I., "Incremental Horizontal Fragmentation of
Database Class Objects", in preparation.
Ezeife, C.I and Jian
Zheng, "A Practical Approach to Dynamic
Horizontal Fragmentation of Database Object Classes", in preparation.
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