A deep explainable model for fault prediction using IoT sensors (2022)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., & Vadera, S. (2022). A deep explainable model for fault prediction using IoT sensors. IEEE Access, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3184693

IoT sensors and deep learning models can widely be applied for fault prediction. Although deep learning models are considerably more potent than many conventional machine learning models, they are not transparent. This paper first examines differen... Read More about A deep explainable model for fault prediction using IoT sensors.

Methods for pruning deep neural networks (2022)
Journal Article
Vadera, S., & Ameen, S. (2022). Methods for pruning deep neural networks. IEEE Access, 63280- 63300. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3182659

This paper presents a survey of methods for pruning deep neural networks. It begins by categorising over 150 studies based on the underlying approach used and then focuses on three categories: methods that use magnitude based pruning, methods that... Read More about Methods for pruning deep neural networks.

EBNO : evolution of cost-sensitive Bayesian networks (2019)
Journal Article
Nashnush, E., & Vadera, S. (2020). EBNO : evolution of cost-sensitive Bayesian networks. Expert Systems, 37(3), e12495. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12495

The last decade has seen an increase in the attention paid to the development of cost sensitive learning algorithms that aim to minimize misclassification costs while still maintaining accuracy. Most of this attention has been on cost sensitive dec... Read More about EBNO : evolution of cost-sensitive Bayesian networks.

Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits (2019)
Journal Article
Ameen, S., & Vadera, S. (2020). Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits. Computer Journal, 63(7), 1099-1108. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxz078

The successful application of deep learning has led to increasing expectations of their use in embedded systems. This in turn, has created the need to find ways of reducing the size of neural networks. Decreasing the size of a neural network requi... Read More about Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits.

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings (2019)
Book
24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23281-8

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2019, held in Salford, UK, in June 2019. The 21 full papers and 16 short papers were carefully re... Read More about Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings.

Case studies in applying data mining for churn analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Lomax, S., & Vadera, S. (2017). Case studies in applying data mining for churn analysis. International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications, 5(2), 22-33. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijcssa.2017070102

The advent of price and product comparison sites now makes it even more important to retain customers and identify those that might be at risk of leaving. The use of data mining methods has been widely advocated for predicting customer churn. This pa... Read More about Case studies in applying data mining for churn analysis.

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, A., Vadera, S., Ravey, M., Lovatt, G., & Kelly, G. (2017). A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage. Health Education, 117(6), 530-539. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2017-0006

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several auth... Read More about A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage.

A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images (2017)
Journal Article
Ameen, S., & Vadera, S. (2017). A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images. Expert Systems, 34(3), e12197. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12197

Sign language is used by approximately 70 million1 people throughout the world, and an automatic tool for interpreting it could make a major impact on communication between those who use it and those who may not understand it. However, computer inte... Read More about A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images.

Learning cost-sensitive Bayesian networks via direct and indirect methods (2016)
Journal Article
Nashnush, E., & Vadera, S. (2017). Learning cost-sensitive Bayesian networks via direct and indirect methods. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 24(1), 17-26. https://doi.org/10.3233/ICA-160514

Cost-Sensitive learning has become an increasingly important area that recognizes that real world classification problems need to take the costs of misclassification and accuracy into account. Much work has been done on cost-sensitive decision tree l... Read More about Learning cost-sensitive Bayesian networks via direct and indirect methods.

Natural language processing and information systems : 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016, Salford, UK, June 22-24, 2016, Proceedings (2016)
Book
(2016). E. Metais, F. Meziane, M. Saraee, V. Sugumaran, S. Vadera, E. Métais, …S. Vadera (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems : 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016, Salford, UK, June 22-24, 2016, Proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7

This volume of the lecture notes in computer science (LNCS) contains the papers presented at the 21st International Conference on application of Natural Language to Information Systems, held at MediacityUK, University of Salford on the 22-24 June 201... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016, Salford, UK, June 22-24, 2016, Proceedings.

Cost-sensitive Bayesian network learning using sampling (2014)
Book Chapter
Nashnush, E., & Vadera, S. (2014). Cost-sensitive Bayesian network learning using sampling. In Recent Advances on Soft Computing and Data Mining (467-476). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07692-8_44

A significant advance in recent years has been the development of cost-sensitive decision tree learners, recognising that real world classification problems need to take account of costs of misclassification and not just focus on accuracy. The litera... Read More about Cost-sensitive Bayesian network learning using sampling.

Natural language processing and information systems : 18th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 2013; Proceedings (2013)
Book
(2013). E. Métais, F. Meziane, M. Saraee, & S. Vadera (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems : 18th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 2013; Proceedings. Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, held in Salford, UK, in June 2013. The 21 long papers, 15 short papers and 17 poster papers presented... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 18th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 2013; Proceedings.

A survey of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms (2013)
Journal Article
Lomax, S., & Vadera, S. (2013). A survey of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms. ACM computing surveys, 45(2), 16:1-16:35. https://doi.org/10.1145/2431211.2431215

The past decade has seen a significant interest on the problem of inducing decision trees that take account of costs of misclassification and costs of acquiring the features used for decision making. This survey identifies over 50 algorithms includi... Read More about A survey of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms.

A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, S., Vadera, S., & Saraee, M. (2012, December). A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning. Presented at 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Brussels, Belgium

Several authors have studied the problem of inducing decision trees that aim to minimize costs of misclassification and take account of costs of tests. The approaches adopted vary from modifying the information theoretic attribute selection measure u... Read More about A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning.

Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining (2012)
Book Chapter
Vadera, S., Saraee, M., & Lomax, S. (2012). Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining. In J. Vreeken, C. Ling, M. Zaki, A. Siebes, J. Yu, B. Goethals, …X. Wu (Eds.), The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining : Workshops. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2012.148

Much of the early work on data mining concentrated on developing algorithms that focused on classification accuracy. A more challenging and practical problem is to devise algorithms that learn rules or associations that optimize income and take bette... Read More about Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining.

An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms (2011)
Journal Article
Lomax, S., & Vadera, S. (2011). An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms. Expert Systems, 28(3), 227-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00573.x

Decision tree induction is a widely used technique for learning from data which first emerged in the 1980s. In recent years, several authors have noted that in practice, accuracy alone is not adequate, and it has become increasingly important to tak... Read More about An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms.

A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009 (2011)
Journal Article
Kobbacy, K., & Vadera, S. (2011). A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 22(6), 706-733. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410381111149602

Purpose: the use of AI for operations management, with its ability to evolve solutions, handle uncertainty and perform optimisation continues to be a major field of research. The growing body of publications over the last two decades means that it c... Read More about A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009.

CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm (2010)
Journal Article
Vadera, S. (2010). CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm. ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data, 4(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/1754428.1754429

This article presents a new decision tree learning algorithm called CSNL that induces Cost-Sensitive Non-Linear decision trees. The algorithm is based on the hypothesis that nonlinear decision nodes provide a better basis than axis-parallel decision... Read More about CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm.

Artificial intelligence applications for improved software engineering development : new prospects (2009)
Book
Meziane, F., & Vadera, S. (2009). Artificial intelligence applications for improved software engineering development : new prospects. Hershey, New York, USA: IGI Global

Despite decades of research, developing software that is fit for purpose, developed on time, and within budget remains a challenge. Many researchers have advocated the use of artificial intelligence techniques such as knowledge-based systems, neural... Read More about Artificial intelligence applications for improved software engineering development : new prospects.

AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects (2009)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Vadera, S. (2009). AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects. In F. Meziane, & S. Vadera (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects (273-294). Hershey, New York, USA: IGI Global

Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the way to improve many of the software development activities. As with many o... Read More about AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects.