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Professional Activities Meetings Chaired: General Chair: Workshop Co-Chair: INNS - Crowd Behavior and Big Data, San Francisco, August 2015 Chair for the Workshop on Databases/Information Systems/Informatics, Global Online Conference on Information Systems, Louisville, KY, November 2015 25nd IEEE International Symposium on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies - ICAT 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 2013, Co-Chair 24th IEEE International Symposium on Information, Communication, and Automation Technologies - ICAT 2011, Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 2011, Co-chair. 23rd IEEE International Symposium of Information, Communication, and Automation Technologies - ICAT 2010, Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 2010, Co-chair. International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (ICMLA’09), Miami, FL, December 2009. International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (ICMLA’07), Cincinnati, OH, 2007. International International Workshop on Web Security, Integrity, Privacy, and Trust (WSIPT 2007), Silicon Valley, CA, November 2007, Co-chair. International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (ICMLA’04), Louisville, KY, 2004. 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Arlington, VA, June 13-15, 2001. Program Chair: Minitrack Co-Chair: Streaming Data Analytics and Applications, Hawaii International Conference on System ScienceHICSS-50, Hawaii, January 2017 Minitrack Co-Chair: Streaming Data Analytics and Applications, Hawaii International Conference on System ScienceHICSS-49, Kauai, Hawaii, January 2016 Technical Program Chair for CICT-Database, Louisville, KY, December 2014 22nd International Symposium on Information, Communication, and Automation Technologies - ICAT 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 2009. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Sarajevo, Bosnia, December 2008. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Hawaii, Publicity chair, April 2007. International Conference on Intelligent Systems ICIS-99, Denver, CO, June 24-26, 1999 . Annual Conferences on Information Technologies, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1979-1991 . XXXII Yugoslav Conference on Electronics, Telecommunication and Automation - ETAN 1988. Session Chair: Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2010), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2009), Miami, FL, December 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) 2008, Sarajevo, Bosnia, December 2008 INternational Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007), Cincinnati, OH, December 2007 International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, San Francisco, CA, November 2007 Workshop on Mathematical Methods for Learning, Como, Italy, June 2004 5 th International Conference on Data Mining, Pachuca, Mexico, 2003. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’03), Los Angeles, June 2003. The 2002 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, 2002. 13 th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2000. Kentuckiana Conference On E-Commerce, Louisville, 2000. International Conference on Intelligent Systems ICIS-2000, Louisville, 2000. ISCA International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997. International Conference "Computer at the University" Cavtat, Croatia, 1991. Annual Conference on AI and Information-Control Systems, Prague, CSSR, 1989. 2 nd IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Experience with Management of Software Projects, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1988. International Conference ICCIP '87, Beijing, China, 1987. IFIP Conference on Network in Office Automation, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1984. Program Committee Member ISCSE 2017 IEEE CIDM 2016, ADBIS 2016, INNSBIGDATA 2016, IoP 2016, IEEE BigDataSE-16 2016, KDIR 2016, CONTENT2016 IEEE CIDM 2015, IEEE BigDataSE-15 2015, ICDM 2015, IEEE DSAA 2015 IEEE SSCI 2014, IEEE ICACCI-2014, IEEE DSAA 2014, HDM'2014, DSAA 2014, MISNC 2014, SNAM-DT 2014, ADBIS 2014, ACM/IEEE ASONOM 2014, KDIR 2014, ICDM 2014 IEEE CIDM 2013 ICHIS 2012, ICDM 2012, ASONAM 2012 ANASOM 2011, CIDM 2011, IEEE IRI 2011, KDIR 2011 IEEE IRI 2010, IEEE ICMWI 2010, ADBIS 2010, ICMWI 2010 ASONAM 2009 ISSPIT 2008, IRI 2008, BMEI 2008, ACHI 2008, ADMA 2008, FlexDBIST 2008 DSMM 2007, DMIN 2007, FlexDBIST 2007, ADMKD 2007 ADMA 2006, ICMLA 2006, IEEE MESD 2006 ADMA 2005 International Conference ADMA 2005 Conference, China, 2005 International Conference ICMI 2005 Conference, Tunisia, 2005 Mathematical Methods for Learning: Advances in data mining and knowledge discovery, June 2004, Como, Italy 5 th International Conference on Data Mining, Pachuca, Mexico, 2003. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'03), Los Angeles, June 2003. Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA'03), Tulsa, August 2003. 13 th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2000. ISCA International Conference on Intelligent Systems ICIS-99, Denver, Colorado, 1999. Simulation - The Journal of the Society for Computer Simulation, 1995. ISCA International Conference "Parallel and Distributed Computer, Systems '95", Orlando, Florida, 1995. International Conference "Computer at University", Dubrovnik, Croatia (1989-1991) Annual Yugoslav Conference on Electronics, Telecommunication and Automation - ETAN (in Serbo-Croatian, 1987-1991) Other Activities ICCIS 2010 Advisory Committee International Advisory Committee for the Conference on Emerging Technologies and Applications in Engineering, Rajkot, Gujarat, India, 2008 Editor of IEEE Internet Computing, special Issue on Distributed Data Mining, spring 2006. Reviewer and Panel Member of the NSF medium ITR panel, Washington, DC, May 2003. Reviewer for: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, 2004. International Journal of Neural Parallel and Scientific Computation , Special Topic on Computational Intelligence in Management, 2003. ISCA Journal, 2003. IEEE Special Award Judge for 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Louisville, Kentucky, 2002. IEEE Computer Science Special Award Judge for International Science and Engineering Fair, Louisville, Kentucky, 1997. General Secretary of BIT , Bosnian Association for Information Technologies (1991-1995). Member of the Managing Board of YUNAC Association (Network for Academia, 1989-1991). Board Member of ETAN , the Yugoslav professional association for electronics (1987-1992). Member of IEEE , ISCA and SPIE Invited Presentations "Adversarial Behavior in Big Data Cybersecurity Applications", Keynote Lecture, International Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering, Jaipur, India, March 2017 "Experiences with Social Media Computing ", Workshop on Social Media and Recruitment, University of Louisville, November 21, 2013. "Big Data Trends", Bosnia and Herzegovina IEEE section, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2013. "PhD Topics in CECS", discussion moderator at the Department of Computer Science PhD students session, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK, April 2013. "Building Dynamically an Ensemble of Classifiers Using Partially Labeled Streaming Data", Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems Department, University of Cincinnati, OH, March 2013. "Click Fraud Prevention in Pay-per-click Model: Learning through Multimodal Evidence Fusion," Invited Keynote Talk on the IEEE International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence, Algiers, October 2010. "Petabyte Data Mining: Theory or Reality?" University of Cincinnati, OH, 2008. "SNAS: Spatial Navigation Assistance System for large Virtual Environments," Invited Talk at the International Symposium on Data Mining, Virtual Environments, and Online Communities, Kyoto, Japan, March 2006. "Trends in Data Mining," IEEE - CS Local Chapter, Louisville, KY, March 2005. "Data Mining Principles," Informatics Research Institute, Mubarak City, Egypt, 2004. Tutorial: “Advanced Data Mining: From Temporal Data Mining to Stream Data Mining”, one-day tutorial, 5 th International Conference on Data Mining, Pachuca, Mexico, August 2003. “Temporal Data Mining”-CSE Ph.D. seminar . University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2002. ” Data Mining” .SUNY University, Brockport, NY, 2001. ” Data Mining” . St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN, 2001. ” Data Mining” . Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, 2001. “ Neural Network Gaps” . Indiana Southeast University, New Albany, IN, 2001. “Computer Security and Protection” .State University, St. Cloud, MN, 1998. “Neural Network Gaps” - CSE Ph.D. seminar (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1998). Services Professional and Scientific Society Activities: Fulbright Specialists Grantee - The Fulbright Associations, since August 2013 Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technologies (since 2010) Member of the Kentucky Academy of Science (since 2011) Member of the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS) (since 2008) Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology IET (since 2007) Member of IEE (since 2006) Member of IEEE (since 1988) Memberoif the IEEE Data Mining Technical Committee (DMTC) (2005-present) Steering Committee Member for the International Conference on Machine Learning - ICMLA (2003-present). General Secretary of BIT - Bosnian Association for Information Technologies (1991-1995) Member of the Managing Board of YUNAC Association (Network for Academia, 1989-1991). Board Member of ETAN, the Yugoslav professional association for electronics (1987-1992) University-wide Membership: Chair of the Speed School Graduate Education Committee (2015-Present) UofL Program Review Committee, Committee Member, (2012 - Present) Speed School Cooperative Education Committee, Committee Member. (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013) Speed School Strategic Planning Educational Excellence Committee, Committee Member. (February 2012 - May 2012) CECS Strategic Planning Committee (Ad-hoc), 2012 Member of Faculty Advisory Board for Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research since 2011 Member of Speed School Strategic Planning Committee since 2011 Chair of the CECS Promotion Committee since 2007 The University Committee of the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, 2008-2011 Graduate Council, Univerisity of Louisville, 2007-2011 CECS Fellowships Committee Director of the Data Mining Certificate Program at the University of Louisville since 2005 Director of the Graduate Program at CECS Department since 2007 CSE PhD Program Coordinator since 2005 UofL Fellowships Committee since 2006 Speed School Co-Op Committee since 2005 Organizing PhD seminars, 2006-2012 Faculty Search Committee, 2006 Bioinformatics Research Group since 2002 Committee of Committees, 2004-2006 Engineering Core Committee, 2004-2005 Transcript Review Committee, CECS Department, 2002 Curriculum Committee, CECS Department, 2003 Faculty Search Committee for CECS Department Chair, 2002-2003 Data Mining Research Group for Undergraduate Students (RGUS), 2002 Member of James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, since 2001 Data Mining Group since 2001 Community-related Services: Initiated for establishing student IEEE section at the SSST University in Sarajevo, May 2013 Judge for the “Math, Computer Science and Engineering” session at the Kentucky Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, February 2005, 2008, 2010 Member of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL): NABC Master. Member of the American-Bosnian Association Editorial Positions & Reviewer: Editorial Board & Associate Ediotr of the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIREs DMKD), Wiley, since 2007 Editorial Board for the Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining Journal, since 2008 Guest Editor for the IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Distributed Data Mining, July/August 2006 Editorial Board for The Informaiton Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), since 2005 Editorial Board for The Mathematical Methods for Learning, Springer, 2005 Editor of the book: "Machine Learning and Applications", Proceedings of The 2004 International Conference ICMLA'04, IEEE Inc., 2004 Editor of the book: "Intelligent Systems", Proceedings of the 8th ICIS Conference, ISCA Publ., Denver, CO, 1999 Review Panel Member for Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (NHARP), 2010 Review Panel Member for the Austrian Science Foundation (ASF) in 2008 and 2010 Review Panel Member for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP), 2004 and 2007 Review Panel Member for RAND Corporation NPRP, 2007 Review Panel Member of the NSF medium ITR panel, Washington, DC, May 2003 --------------------------------------- Reviewer for the Algorithms journal, 2016 Reviewer for Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Journal, 2014 Book review: Introduction to Applied Business Analytics by Venkat Srinivasan, John Wiley, July 2014 Reviewer for Entropy Journal, MDPI, 2013 - 2014 Reviewer for Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2013 -2014 Reviewer for International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, 2013 Reviewer for Neurocomuting, 2011 Reviewer of the book: "Recent Trends in Information Reuse and Integration", 2010 Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2010 Reviewer of Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2010 Reviewer for Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2008-2011 Reviewer for Protein Journal, 2007 Reviewer for International Journal of Neural Systems, 2007 Reviewer for The Information Resources Management Journal, 2007 Reviewer for the IEEE Internet Computing, 2007 Reviewer for the IEEE Electronic Letters, 2004 and 2005 Reviewer for the Machine Learning Publication, Milan, Italy, 2004 Reviewer for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, 2004 Reviewer for the International Journal of Neural Parallel and Scientific Computation, Special Topic on Computational Intelligence in Management, May 2003 Reviewer for the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications ISCA, August 2003 IEEE Computer Society Judge for 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Reviewer of the book: S. K. Pal, S. Mitra, Neuro-fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing Paradigm, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999 IEEE Computer Science Special Award Judge for International Science and Engineering Fair, Louisville, Kentucky, 1997 Simulation - The Journal of the Society for Computer Simulation, reviewer, 1995 Praksa - Journal on Computer Applications, reviewer, (in Serbo-Croatian, 1985-1991) --------------------------------------- Guest Editor for the IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Distributed Data Mining, Spring 2006 Reviewer of projects for Canada National Science Foundation, December 2004. Reviewer for the IEEE Electronic Letters, 2004 Reviewer for the Machine Learning Publication (Italy), 2004. Reviewer for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, 2004 Editor of the book: Machine Learning and Applications, Proceedings of The 2004 International Conference ICMLA’04, IEEE Inc., December 2004. Reviewer and Panel Member of the NSF medium ITR panel, Washington, DC, May 2003. Reviewer for the International Journal of Neural Parallel and Scientific Computation, Special Topic on Computational Intelligence in Management, May 2003. Reviewer for the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications ISCA, August 2003. IEEE Computer Society Judge for 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Editor of the book: “Intelligent Systems”, Proceedings of the 8th ICIS Conference, ISCA, Denver, CO, 1999. Book Reviewer: S. K. Pal, S. Mitra, Neuro-fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing Paradigm, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999. IEEE Computer Science Special Award Judge for International Science and Engineering Fair, Louisville, Kentucky, 1997. Simulation - The Journal of the Society for Computer Simulation, reviewer, 1995. Praksa - Journal on Computer Applications, reviewer, (in Serbo-Croatian, 1985-1991). Awards Microsoft Azure Educator Grant Award, February 2016. Finalist Team in LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge, April 2015, (Team Leader). Second edition of the textbook: "Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms" (John Willey, 2011), which is translated into Chinese by Xinhua (in 2013), is selected to be published in the series: "Foreign Computer Science Classic Textbooks": (http://www.amazon.com/Foreign-computer-science-classic-textbook/dp/B00B1YV800) Second edition of the textbook: "Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms" (John Willey, 2011) is selected in Japan as one of the Top 100 Bestsellers in Engineering and Technology for 2011: (www.wiley.co.jp/electronic/engineering_top100_201206.xls) IEEE Institute Magazine, selected second edition of the textbook: "Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms" (John Willey, 2011) and reviewed as a book of interest in the June 2012 issue ( http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ns/quarterly_issues/tijun12.pdf ) Selected for the Fulbright Specialists in Information Technology, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Institute for International Education (IIE), November 2012, (2012-2017). Successfully completed Fulbright Specialist Program at SSST University in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April - June 2013. Recognized as America's Top Faculty by Faculty Row, 06/2014. The paper "False Alarm Removal in the Twitter-Based Flu Outbreak Detection" was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the MDA'13 conference, New York, July 2013. 2011-2012 Faculty Favorite: An Outstanding Professor Nominated by Students, September 2012. The Best Paper Award for the paper: "Efficiently Maintaining the Performance of an Ensemble Classifier in Streaming Data" presented at the 2012 International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology - ICHIT 2012, Daejeon, Korea, August 2012. 2010-2011 Faculty Favorite: An Outstanding Professor nominated by students, September 2011. Outstanding Paper Award: "Time and Space Contextual Information Improves Click Quality Estimation," International Confernence e-Commerce 2009, Algarve, Portugal, June 2009. Distinguished Service Award, April 2008. 2005 and 2007 Student nominated Faculty Favorite. Best Paper Award: "Indicators of Network-wide Traffic Dynamics: Random Matrix Theory Approach" presented at the 2007 International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, San Francisco, CA, November 2007. Best Paper Honorable Mention: "Link Analysis Tools for Intelligence and Counterterrorism" at the 2005 International Confernece on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Atlanta, GA, May 2005. Who's Who in America, 2006 and 2008. Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002 and 2005. Nomination for Best Paper: "Structuring Semantically Distributed Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data Sites," International Conference of the Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, St. Louis, MO, November 2004. Distinguished Faculty Award Nominee, 2004. Best Paper Award: "Efficient Implementation of Strong Negative Associations Rules" at the 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, June 2003. Best Paper Award in the area of computer science: M. Kantardzic et al., "DIPSY-E: Expert System Development Tool," ETAN '85 Conference, NIS, Yugoslavia, June 1985. The Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for the paper: “Link Analysis Tools for Intelligence and Counterterrorism” at the 2005 International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Atlanta, GA, May 2005. 2004 Distinguish Faculty Award Nominee. The Best Paper Award for the paper: “Efficient Implementation of Strong Negative Associations Rules” at the 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, June 2003. Listed in the seventh edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002. Recognized in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002 and 2005.