Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro Selected Publications

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - 1996 to 2005: Overcoming the Hype and moving from "University" to "Business" and "Analytics", Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, 2007.
• What Are The Grand Challenges for Data Mining? KDD-2006 Panel Report, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Robert Grossman, Chabane Djeraba, Ronen Feldman, Lise Getoor, Mohammed Zaki, KDD-06 Panel Report, SIGKDD Explorations, 8(2), Dec 2006.
• 10 Challenging Problems in Data Mining Research, Qiang Yang, Xindong Wu, Pedro Domingos, Charles Elkan, Johannes Gehrke, Jiawei Han, David Heckerman, Daniel Keim, Jiming Liu, David Madigan, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Vijay V. Raghavan, Rajeev Rastogi, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Alexander Tuzhilin, and Benjamin W. Wah, Spec. Issue of International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2006).
• On Feature Selection through Clustering, R. Butterworth, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, Dan A. Simovici, Proceedings of IEEE ICDM-2005 Conference, Nov 2005.
• A Comprehensive Microarray Data Generator to Map the Space of Classification and Clustering Methods, Piatetsky-Shapiro, Gregory , and Grinstein, Georges G., Tech. Report No. 2004-016, U. Massachusetts Lowell, 2004.
• Microarray Data Mining: Facing the Challenges (PDF), Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Pablo Tamayo, SIGKDD Explorations, Dec 2003.
• Capturing Best Practice for Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, T. Khabaza, S. Ramaswamy, in Proceedings of KDD-2003 (ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Washington, D.C., 2003. (Honorary mention for best application paper).
• Measuring Real-Time Predictive Models (poster presentation), S. Steingold, R. Wherry, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, in Proceedings of IEEE ICDM-2001 Conference, San Jose, CA, Nov 2001.
• Measuring Lift Quality in Database Marketing, (pdf, 100K), G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and S. Steingold, SIGKDD Explorations, Dec 2000.
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases: 10 years after, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, SIGKDD Explorations, Vol 1, No 2, Feb 2000.
• Expert Opinion: The data-mining industry coming of age (PDF), Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 14, No. 6, November/December 1999.
• Estimating Campaign Benefits and Modeling Lift, (MS Word) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Brij Masand, Proceedings of KDD-99 Conference, ACM Press, 1999.
• Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Imperfect Information, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, chapter in A. Motro and P. Smets, eds., Uncertainty in Information Management, Kluwer, 1997.
• From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases,
  Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Padhraic Smyth. AI Magazine 17(3): Fall 1996, 37-54
• Mining Business Databases, Ron Brachman, Tom Khabaza, Willi Kloesgen, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Evangelos Simoudis, Communications of ACM, 39:11, November 1996.
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An overview, Usama M. Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Padhraic Smyth, Communications of ACM, 39:11, November 1996.
• Improving Classification Accuracy by Automatic Generation of Derived Fields Using Genetic Programming, B. Masand and G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, in Advances in Genetic Programming II, MIT Press, 1996.
• An Overview of Issues in Developing Industrial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ron Brachman, Tom Khabaza, Willi Kloesgen, and Evangelos Simoudis, in KDD-96 Conference Proceedings, ed. E. Simoudis, J. Han, and U. Fayyad, AAAI Press, 1996.
• A Comparison of Approaches For Maximizing Business Payoff of Prediction Models, Brij Masand and Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, in KDD-96 Conference Proceedings, ed. E. Simoudis, J. Han, and U. Fayyad, AAAI Press, 1996.
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Towards a Unifying Framework, Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Padhraic Smyth in KDD-96 Conference Proceedings, ed. E. Simoudis, J. Han, and U. Fayyad, AAAI Press, 1996.
• From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery: an Overview, U. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, in Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AAAI/MIT Press, 1996.
• Selecting and Reporting What is Interesting: The KEFIR Application to Healthcare Data, C. Matheus, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, and D. McNeill, in Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AAAI/MIT Press, 1996.
• Knowledge Discovery in Personal Data vs. Privacy, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, IEEE expert, April 1995
• KDD-93: Progress and Challenges in Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PDF, latex), G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, C. Matheus, P. Smyth, R. Uthurusamy, AI magazine, 15(3): Fall 1994, 77-82.
• The Interestingness of Deviations, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, C. Matheus, in Proceedings of KDD-94 workshop, AAAI Press, 1994.
• Systems for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, C. Matheus, P. Chan, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 5(6), Dec. 1993.
• Measuring Data Dependencies, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and C. Matheus, in Proceedings of AAAI-93 Workshop on KDD, AAAI Press Report WS-02.
• "Knowledge Discovery in Databases - An Overview", W. Frawley, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, C. Matheus, (PDF), in Knowledge Discovery in Databases 1991, pp. 1--30. Reprinted in AI Magazine, Fall 1992.
• Knowledge Discovery Workbench for Exploring Business Databases, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and C. Matheus, in Int. J. of Intelligent Systems, 7(7), Sep 1992.
• Report on AAAI91 workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, IEEE Expert, Fall 1991
• "Discovery, Analysis, and Presentation of Strong Rules", G. Piatetsky-Shapiro (in Knowledge Discovery in Databases 1991), pp. 229-248.
• Knowledge Discovery in Real Databases: A workshop report (PDF, html), AI Magazine, vol. 11, no. 5, January 1991.

Books and Proceedings

• SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining, Vol. 5, Issue 2, Dec 2003.
• R. Agrawal, P. Stolorz, and G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, eds., Proceedings of KDD-98: 4th International Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AAAI Press, 1998.
• U. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, R. Uthurusamy, eds., Advances in Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI/MIT Press 1996.
• Mini-symposium on KDD vs. Privacy, IEEE Expert, April 1995. full text of a draft.
• Special issue of J. of Intelligent Information Systems on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ed. G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, 4(1), Jan 1995.
• KDD-93: Proceedings of AAAI-93 Workshop on KDD, ed. G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, AAAI Press Report WS-02, 1993.
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and William Frawley, eds., Knowledge Discovery in Databases, AAAI/MIT Press, 1991.