Professor Tapio Elomaa, Ph.D. Department of Software Systems Tampere University of Technology P.O. Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere Finland phone: +358 3 3115 3362 fax: +358 3 3115 2913 I am also Docent of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science University of Helsinki and Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Helsinki University of Technology

News and Announcements

• We will organize the 22nd ALT and 14th DS conference in Espoo, Finland, Oct. 2011
• I will lecture in Spring 2010 (periods IV and V) the course Artificial Intelligence
• I was the Program Co-chair of 18th ISMIS in Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 14 - 17, 2009

Teaching

My office is TF214.

Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering

Courses

• Varied topics in algorithmics, OHJ-2650 Algoritmiikan vaihtuva-aiheinen kurssi:
  • Probability and computing, Todennäköisyys ja laskenta 05/06
• OHJ-2556 Artificial intelligence 10
  
  • Previously OHJ-2550 (8101905) Tekoäly 03, 04, 07, 09
• OHJ-2306 Introduction to theoretical computer science 09
  
  • Previously OHJ-2300 (8101100) Johdatus tietojenkäsittelyteoriaan 04, 05, 05b, 06, 08
• Earlier courses

Research Interests

Well-F(o)unded Approaches to Pure Computer Science (to be defined ...)

• Machine Learning, symbolic, empirical and analytical
  including Data Mining, methodology
• Data Structures and Algorithms , analysis
• Artificial Intelligence, philosophy and foundations
• Pattern Recognition

Projects & Programmes

• Current
  • REALM: Ractive Learning and Mining, 2010-11 Academy of Finland.
  • My current post-graduate students include: Timo Aho, Teemu Heinimäki, Heidi Koivisto
• Past
  • My post-graduate alumni includes:
    • Jussi Kujala, Dr.Tech. 2008
    • Ilkka Autio, Ph.D. 2008
    • Matti Kääriäinen, Ph.D. 2004
    • Juho Rousu, Ph.D. 2001
  • Machine Learning and Online Data Structures, Senior Scientist Grant, 2007-08 Academy of Finland.
  • ALEA: Approximation and Learning Algorithms, 2005-08 Academy of Finland. (Consortium with Jyrki Kivinen).
  • INTENTS: Intelligent Online Data Structures, 2004-07 Academy of Finland
  • Intelligent Control of an Autonomous Robot, 2000-02 University of Helsinki
  • From Data to Knowledge, NeuroCOLT 2, KDNet, MLnet, ...
• Extended Visits Abroad
  • Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl I12 from March to August, 2008
  • In 1997-98 I spent 19 months as a TMR Marie Curie Fellow
    at ISIS, Joint Research Centre, European Commission in Ispra, Italy

Professional Activities

• Editoria Board Member of
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

• I have served as
  • PC Co-Chair of
    • 14th DS (Espoo), 2011
    • 18th ISMIS (Prague), 2009
    • 13th ECML and 6th PKDD (Helsinki), 2002
  • Area/Vice Chair of
    • 8th ICDM (Pisa, Italy), 2008
    • 19th ECML/12th PKDD (Antwerp, Belgium), 2008
    • 12th PAKDD (Osaka, Japan), 2008
  • Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair of 17th ECML / 10th PKDD (Berlin), 2006
• Current Program Committee memberships include
  • 13th DS (Canberra, Australia) Oct. 6 - 8, 2010
  • 27th ICML (Haifa, Israel), June 21 - 24, 2010
  • 9th ICDM (Miami, FL), Dec. 6 - 9, 2009
  • 13th KES (Santiago, Chile), Sept. 28 - 30, 2009
  • 8th IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT (Milan, Italy), Sept. 15 - 18, 2009
  • 18th ISMIS (Prague, Czech Republic), Program Co-Chair, Sept. 14 - 17, 2009
  • 20th ECML/13th PKDD (Bled, Slovenia), Sept. 7 - 11, 2009
  • 11th DaWaK (Linz, Austria), Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 2009
  • 3rd ADMI WS @ IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT '08 (Sydney, Australia), Dec. 9 - 12, 2008
  • 12th PAKDD (Osaka, Japan), Area Chair, May 20 - 23, 2008

• We have organized
  • We will organize the 22nd ALT and 14th DS conference in Espoo, Finland, Oct. 2011
  • 25th ICML, 24th UAI, and 21st COLT in Helsinki July 5 - 12, 2008
  • Summer School on Algorithmic Data Analysis in Helsinki May 27 - June 2, 2007
  • 13th ECML and 6th PKDD in Helsinki August 19 - 23, 2002

• EATCS, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
• IMLS, International Machine Learning Society
• MCFA, Marie Curie Fellows Association

Representative Recent Publications

• An analysis of relevance vector machine regression. In J. Koronacki et al. (eds.), Advances in Machine Learning I. (Dedicated to the memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski.) (pp. 227-246). Studies in Computational Intelligence 262. Springer, 2010. With M. Saarela and K. Ruohonen.
• A walk from 2-norm SVM to 1-norm SVM. In Proc. 9th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, ICDM 2009 (pp. 836-841). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009. With T. Aho and J. Kujala.
• Foundations of Intelligent Systems: Proc. 18th Intl. Symp., ISMIS 2009. LNAI 5722 Springer, 2009. Editor with J. Rauch, Z. Ras, and P. Berka.
• Unsupervised classifier selection based on two-sample test. In J.-F. Boulicaut, M. R. Berthold, and T. Horváth (eds.), Discovery Science, Proc. 11th Intl. Conf., DS-2008 (pp. 28-39). LNAI 5255. Springer, 2008. With T. Aho and J. Kujala.
• Ranking the uniformity of interval pairs. In W. Daelemans, B. Goethals, and K. Morik (eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2008, Part I (pp. 640-655). LNAI 5211. Springer, 2008. With J. Kujala.
• The cost of offline binary search tree algorithms and the complexity of the request sequence. Theoretical Computer Science 393, 1-3 (Mar. 2008) 231-239. With J. Kujala.
• Reducing splaying by taking advantage of working sets. In C. C. McGeoch (ed.), Experimental Algorithms, Proc. 7th Intl. Workshop, WEA 2008 (pp. 1-13). LNCS 5038. Springer, 2008. With T. Aho and J. Kujala.
• Maintaining optimal multi-way splits for numerical attributes in data streams. In T. Washio, E. Suzuki, K. M. Ting, and A. Inokuchi (eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Proc. 12th Pacific-Asia Conf., PAKDD 2008 (pp. 544-553). LNAI 5012. Springer, 2008. With P. Lehtinen.
• Obtaining low-arity discretizations from online data streams. In A. An, S. Matwin, Z. W. Ras, and D. Slezak (eds.), Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Proc. 17th Intl. Symp., ISMIS 2008 (pp. 90-99). LNAI. 4994 Springer, 2008. With P. Lehtinen and M. Saarela.
• Following the perturbed leader to gamble at multi-armed bandits. In M. Hutter, R. Servedio, and E. Takimoto (eds.), Algorithmic Learning Theory, Proc. 18th Intl. Conf., ALT '07, (pp. 166-180). LNAI 4754. Springer, 2007. With J. Kujala.
• Improved algorithms for univariate discretization of continuous features. In J. Kok et al. (eds.), Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2007, Proc. 11th European Conf. (pp. 188-199). LNAI 4702. Springer, 2007. With J. Kujala.
  Selected Publications

Jan. 25, 2010 http://www.cs.tut.fi/~elomaa/