DMCS Papers 2005 - 2009 Improved Cardiac Care via Automated Mining of Medical Patient Records R. Bharat Rao Siemens Medical  [2005 1st Place Prize Winner]   Closing the Gap: Automated Screening of Tax Returns to Identify Egregious Tax Shelters Dave DeBarr and Zach Eyler-Walker Mitre Corporation  [2005 2nd Place Prize Winner]   Revenue Recovery with Insolvency Prevention on a Brazilian Telecom Operator Carlos Andre R. Pinheiro, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Brasil Telecom and COPPE/UFRJ   The Mining of SAS Technical Support Data Annette Sanders and Craig DeVault SAS Corporation   Data-driven Modeling of Acute Toxicity of Pesticide Residues Frank Lemke, Emilio Benfenati, Johann-Adolf Mueller KnowledgeMiner Inc . /  Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche   External Search Term Marketing Program: A Return on Investment Approach Pramod Singh, Laksminarayan Choudur and Alan Benson Hewlett-Packard Company   Optimal Allocation of Online Advertisements using Decision Trees and Non-Linear Programming David Montgomery Poindexter Systems   Autonomous Profit Maximization in Online Search Advertising Brendan Kitts, Benjamin J. Perry, Benjamin LeBlanc, Parameshvyas Laxminarayan iProspect  / Isobar Communications Corporation    Price Optimization in Grocery Stores with Cannibalistic Product Interactions Brendan Kitts and Kevin Hetherington iProspect  / Mitre Corporation    Market Basket Recommendations for the HP SMB Store Pramod Singh, Charles Thomas and Ariel Sepulveda Hewlett-Packard Company   Publishing Operational Models of Data Mining Case Studies Timm Euler University of Dortmund   Championing LTV at LTC Ed Freeman and Gabor Melli Washington Mutual / PredictionWorks Inc.   Survival Analysis Models to Estimate Customer Lifetime Value Paolo Giudici, Silvia Figini, Claudia Galliano and Daniela Polla University of Pavia  / Sky Italy   Neural Network to identify and prevent bad debt in Telephone Companies Carlos André R. Pinheiro, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Brasil Telecom / Coppe / UFRJ   Data Mining-Based Segmentation for Targeting: A Telecommunications Example Kasindra Maharaj and Robert Ceurvorst Synovate Inc.    Data Quality Models for High Volume Transaction Streams Joseph Bugajski, Chris Curry, Robert Grossman, David Locke, Steve Vejcik Open Data Group and Visa International [2007 1st Place Prize Winner]   Analytics-driven solutions for customer targeting and sales force allocation R. Lawrence, C. Perlich, S. Rosset, I. Khabibrakhmanov, S. Mahatma, S. Weiss IBM T.J.Watson Research Center [2007 2nd Pace Prize Winner]   How Investigative Data Mining Can Help Intelligence Agencies in Understanding and Splitting Terrorist Networks Nasrullah Memon, David L. Hicks, Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, Henrik Legind Larsen Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg and Mehran University of Engineering & Technology   Smartmatch Brendan Kitts and Gang Wu Microsoft Corporation   Finding Duplicates in the 2010 Census Edward "Ned" Porter and Michael Ikeda US Census Bureau   Any-time clustering of high frequency news streams Fabian Moerchen, Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer Siemens Corporate Research   Data mining for quality improvement Françoise Fogelman Soulié and Doug Bryan Kxen   A Process to Define Sequential Treatment Episodes for Patient Care Patricia B. Cerrito University of Louisville   Weight Watchers: Four Years of Successful Data Mining Tom Osborn University of Technology Sydney / Thought Experiments   Extreme Data Mining: Optimized Search Portfolio Management Kenneth L. Reed Xtreme Data Mining LLC   Mining Source Code Elements for Comprehending Object-Oriented Systems and Evaluating Their Maintainability Yiannis Kanellopoulos, Thimios Dimopulos, Christo Tjortjis, Christo Makris University of Manchester, Deutsche Telekom Labs, University of Patras   Blocking Objectionable Web Content by Leveraging Multiple Information Sources Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Jianping Zhang Arizona State University and America Online Inc   Service Quality Improvement through Business Process Management based on Data Mining Sung Ho Ha and Sang Chan Park Kyungpook National University and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   Text Mining for Product Attribute Extraction Rayid Ghani, Katharina Probst, Yan Liu, Marko Krema and Andrew Fano Accenture Technology Labs and Carnegie Mellon University   Mining Medical Images Glenn Fung, Balaji Krhnapuram, Jinbo Bi, Murat Dundar, Vikas Raykar, Romer Rosales, Sriram Krishnan, R. Bharat Rao Siemens [2009 1st Place Prize Winner]   Data Mining Based Tax Audit Selection: A Case Study from Minnesota Department of Revenue Kuo-Wei Hsu, Nishith Pathak, Jaideep Srivastava, Greg Tschida and Eric Bjorklund U. of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Revenue [2009 2nd Place Prize Winner]   Online Experimentation at Microsoft Ron Kohavi, Thomas Crook and Roger Longbotham Microsoft [2009 3rd Place Prize Winner]   Data mining for intelligence led policing R. van der Veer, H. T. Roos, A. van der Zanden Sentient and Amsterdam Police Force [2009 3rd Place Prize Winner]   A Practical Approach to Combine Data Mining and Prognostics for Improved Predictive Maintenance Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani, Marc Engels, Andy Motten, Steve Vandenplas, Agusmian P. Ompusunggu Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre   Identification of Independent Individualistic Predictors of Mail Order Pharmacy Prescription Utilization of Healthcare Claims Aishwarya Meenakshi Sundar and Jaideep Srivastava U. of Minnesota   Data Mining Approach to Credit Risk Evaluation of Online Personal Loan Applicants Pavel Brusilovsky Business Intelligence Solutions   Migration of Data Mining Pre-processing into the DBMS Carlos Ordonez, Javier Garcıa-Garcıa and Michael J. Rote U. of Houston, UNAM and  Teradata   Estimating Potential Customer Value using a classification technique to determine customer value Thiery Vallaud and Daniel Larose SOCIO Logiciels   Clickfraud Bot Detection: High Stakes Adversarial Signal Detection Brendan Kitts, Albert Roux, Jing Ying Zhang, Raj Mahato, Ron Mills, Wesley Brandi, Kamran Kanany, Matthew Rice, Gang Wu Microsoft   Correlation Explorations in a Classification Model Vincent Lemaire, Carine Hue and Olivier Bernier Orange Labs and GFI Informatique