Evgueni N. Smirnov

 

Publications

 

Theses

 Smirnov, E.N. (2001). Conjunctive and Disjunctive Version Spaces with Instance-Based Boundary Sets,  PhD Thesis, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Shaker Publishing BV, ISBN 90-423-0146-5. [PDF]

 Smirnov, E.N., (1996). Generalised and Disjunctive Version Spaces – Approaches to Concept Learning, PhD Thesis, Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria, (in Bulgarian).

  

 

 

Journals

 

Smirnov, E.N., Nalbantov, G.I., and Kaptein, A., (2009).  Meta-Conformity Approach to Reliable Classification, to appear in Intelligent Data Analysis Journal 13(6), pp. 901-915.

 

Vanderlooy, S., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I., Smirnov, E.N.,  and van den Herik. J. (2009).  The ROC Isometrics Approach to Construct Reliable Classifiers. To appear in Intelligent Data Analysis Journal 13 (1), pp. 3-37.

 

Nikolaev, N., and Smirnov, E.N. (2007). Stochastic Volatility Inference with Monte Carlo Filters, Wilmott Magazine, Willey, July.

  

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I. G. and van den Herik, H.J. (2006). Version Space with Instance-Based Boundary Sets, (submitted).

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I. G. and van den Herik, H.J. (2006), Adaptable One-Sided Boundary Sets, (submitted).

 Smirnov, E.N., Van den Herik, H.J., and Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (2004).  A Unifying Version-Space Representation. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 41 (1): 47-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AMAI.0000018576.88552.df

 Smirnov, E. N. (1998). A Report on the ECAI-98 Conference from the Machine Learning Perspective, The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, n. 3-4, 233-235.

Smirnov, E. N. and Neves J. (1998). A Parametric Generalised Version Space Approach, International Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, n.5, 708-728.

Smirnov, E.N. (1993). Space Fragmenting 2 - An Improved Incremental Method for Disjunctive Concept Acquisition, International Journal on Information Theories & Applications, (9)1, 26- 33.

  

 

Book Chapters

 

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Van den Herik, H.J. (2004).  One-Sided Instance-Based Boundary Sets. In: Meo, R., Lanzi, P. L., and Klemettinen, M. (eds.). Database Support for Data Mining Applications: Discovering Knowledge with Inductive Queries, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 2682, Springer.

 

Smirnov, E.N. (1992). Space Fragmenting - A Method for Disjunctive Concept  Acquisition, in: B. Du Boulay and V. Sgurev, (eds.). Artificial Intelligence V: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Elsevier, 97-104.

 

 

Conference Proceedings:

 

Nikolaev,N. and Smirnov, E. (2009). Unscented Grid Filtering and Smoothing for Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, In: Proc. of the Int. Conference on Neural Networks ICNN-2009, Oslo, Norway, pp.222-228.

 

M. Moed, Evgueni N. Smirnov (2009). Efficient AdaBoost Region Classification. In Procceding of 6th International Conference Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (MLDM 2009), Leipzig, Germany, July 23-25, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5632 Springer, pp.: 123-136.

 

Smirnov, E.N., Nikolaev, N., and Nalbantov, G.I..  (2008). Description Identification and the Consistency Problem. In Proceedings of the 28th SGAI International Conference on Innovative techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI 2004), Springer, December, 2008,  Cambridge, UK, 2008.

 

Van Prehn, J., and Smirnov, E.N., (2008). Region Classification with Decision Trees. In: Proceedings of the Second  IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery (RIKD-08), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 53-59, Pisa, Italy, December 15, 2008. 

Smirnov, E.N., Winands,M., Spronck, P.,  and Schadd, M.  (2007). Constructing Reliable Classifiers for Road Side Assistance. Proceedings of the Annual Belgian-Dutch Machine Learning Conference (Benelearn 2007) (eds.  van Someren, M., Katrenko, S., and  Adriaans, P.), pp. 105-111. University of Amsterdam.

Nikolaev, N. and Smirnov, E.N. (2007). A One-Step Unscented Particle Filter for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, In: Proc. Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN-2007, Porto, pp.747-756.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and N.I. Nikolaev (2006). Generalizing Version Space Support Vector Machines for Non-Separable Data. In: Proceedings of the  IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery (RIKD'06), IEEE Computer Society, Hong Kong, China, December 18, 2006. pp. 744-748.

Smirnov, E.N. and A.M. Kaptein (2006). Theoretical and Experimental Study of a Meta-Typicalness Approach for Reliable Classification. In: Proceedings of the  IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery (RIKD'06), IEEE Computer Society, Hong Kong, China, December 18, 2006 , pp. 739-743.

Smirnov, E.N.,  Vanderlooy, S., and Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (2006). Meta-Typicalness Approach to Reliable Classification. In: Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), (pp.810-811), August 28 - September 1, Riva del Garda, Italy. [PDF]

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., Nalbantov, G.I., and Vanderlooy, S. (2006). Version Space Support Vector Machines. In: Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), (pp.809-810), August 28 - September 1, Riva del Garda, Italy. [PDF]

Vanderlooy,S., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper,I.G.,  and Smirnov,E.N. (2006). An Analysis of Reliable Classifiers through ROC Isometrics. To appear in Proceedings of the ICML 2006 Workshop on ROC Analysis (ROCML 2006), Pittsburgh, USA. [PDF]

Vanderlooy, S.,  Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G.,  and Smirnov, E.N. (2006). Reliable Classifiers in ROC Space. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands (BENELEARN 2006) (pp. 113 - 120), May 11-12, 2006, Ghent, Belgium. [PDF]

Smirnov, E.N.,  Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Nalbantov, G.I. (2006). Reliable Classification with Version Spaces. In Proceedings of the 25th SGAI International Conference on Innovative techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI 2004), Springer, December, 2005,  Cambridge, UK, 288-304, 2006.

Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., Smirnov, E.N., and Nalbantov, G.I. (2005). Reliability yields Information Gain. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands: BENELEARN 2005, M. van Otterlo, M. Poel, and A. Nijholt (eds.), Februari 17-18 2005, Enschede, University of Twente. ISSN 0929-0672, CTIT Workshop Proceeding Series WP05-03, pp. 89-96. [PDF]

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Nalbantov, G. (2004). Anonymous Voting with Suport Vector Machines, in: Proceedings of the Sixteenth  Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC-04),  43-50. [PDF]

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Van den Herik, H.J. (2004). Unifying Version Space Representations: Part Two, in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth  Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (BENELEARN-04), 110-117. [PDF]

Wiesman, F., Graat, G., and Smirnov, E. (2003). Infomation Markets for Agent-Based Retrieval, in: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Dutch-Belgian Artificial Intelligence Conference, (BNAIC 2003), Nijmegen, 347-354, 2003.

Donkers, J., Van den Herik,H.J., Postma, E.O., Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Verbeek, J. (2002). Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA). in: Book of abstracts of "Lerende Oplossingen", June 14 2002, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Technologiestichting STW / Stichting Neurale Netwerken, STW-2002 05 30-01, pp. 3-4.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Van den Herik, H.J. (2002). Efficient Instance Retraction. In: D. Scott (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, (AIMSA 2002),. LNAI 2443, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 21-30.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, and van den, Herik, H.J. (2002). New Version-Space Representations for Efficient Instance Retraction. in: M. Klemettinen, R. Meo, F. Giannotti, and L. De Raedt (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases, KDID'02, Helsinki University Printing House, Helsinki, pp. 32-49.

Smirnov, E.N., van den Herik, H.J., and Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (2002). Adaptable Boundary Sets, Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, AI&M 29-2002, January 2-4, 2002, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai/aimath02/PAPERS/42.pdf).

Smirnov, E.N., van den Herik, H.J., and Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (2001). An Adaptable Version-Space Representation, in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Dutch-Belgian Artificial Intelligence Conference, (BNAIC 2001), Universiteit van Amsterdam, 320-328.

Smirnov, E. N. and van den Herik, H.J. (2000) Applying Preference Biases to Conjunctive and Disjunctive Version Spaces, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA-00), LNAI 1904, Springer, 321-330.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1999). Version Space Convergence with Instance -Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI-99), Chania, Greece, pp. 17-19.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J., Description Identification and Retraction with Integrated  Instance/Concept-Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Eleventh Midwest Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (MAICS-99), AAAI Press, April, 1999, pp.100-107.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1998) Version Space Retraction with Instance/Concept-Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Tenth Netherlands/ Belgium Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (NAIC-98), Amsterdam, November, 97-106.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1998). Version Space Retraction with Instance-Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems and Applications, (AIMSA-98), LNAI 1480, Springer, 389 - 402.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1998) Generalised Version Space Learning Algorithms, in: Proceedings of the Sixth Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ( IBERAMIA-98), Colibri, Lisbon, Portugal, 267 -278.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1998) Learning Disjunctive Concepts Irrespective of the Example Ordering, in: Proceedings of the First Workshop “Learning-98”, Madrid,  (http://alcaudon.tsc.uc3m.es/~learn98/papers/papers/paper011/)

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1998). Description Identification with Instance/Concept-Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Eight Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, (BENELEARN-98), Technical Report N 352, ATO-DLO, 62-70.

Smirnov, E.N. and Braspenning, P. (1998). Version Space Learning with Instance-Based Boundary Sets, in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Europen Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ECAI-98), JohnWiley and Sons, Ltd, 460-464, 1998. (The Best Paper Prize)

Neves, J., Smirnov, E. And Analide, C. (1997).  Incremental Learning of Inheritance, in: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Semiotics and Information Systems: Learning Perspectives, Gaithersburg, USA, 137-146.

Smirnov, E.N., and Braspenning, P.J. (1997) A Space Fragmenting Family of Version Space Algorithms, in: Proceedings of the Ninth Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (NAIC-97), 313-322.

Smirnov,E.N. and Nikolaev, N.I. (1996). A Polynomially Bounded Incremental Algorithm for Multiple EBL, in: Proceedings of the Fifth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, (TAINN-96), Istambul, Turkey, 120-128.

Nikolaev, N.I. and Smirnov, E.N. (1996). Stohastically Guided Disjunctive Version Space Learning, in: Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ECAI-96), JohnWiley and Sons, Ltd, 443-448.

Smirnov,E.N. and Nikolaev, N.I. (1995). Incremental Learning with Space Fragmenting 2, in: Proceedings of the Fourth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, (TAINN-95), Marmara, Turkey, 80-88.

Smirnov, E.N. and Nikolaev, N.I. (1995). Multiple Explanation-Based Learning Guided by Space Fragmenting, in: Proceedings of the Fifth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (SCAI-95), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 85-96.

Nikolaev, N.I. and Smirnov, E.N. (1995). Analytical Learning Guided by Empirical Technology: An Approach to Integration, in: Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Machine Learning, (ECML-95), Spring Verlag, 327-330.

 Smirnov, E.N. and Nikolaev, N.I. (1994). Intelligent Tutoring by Knowledge Refinement with Version Space, in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing & Hybrid Automation, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 247-251.

Smirnov,E.N. and Nikolaev, N.I. (1994). Multiple Explanation-Based Learning Guided by the Candidate Elimination Algorithm, in: P. Jorrand (ed.), Artificial Intelligence VI: Methodology, System, Application, World Scientific Publ., 247-256.

Smirnov, E.N. (1993). Combining Empirical and Analytical Learning with Space Fragmenting and Explanation Based Generalization, in: Proceedings of 18 International Conference "Information Technologies and Programming", Pedagoc Press, Sofia, 120-129.

 

 

Technical Reports

 

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., Wiesman, F.J,  Donkers, J., Postma, E.O., and van den Herik, H.J. (2003). Typing Professions Adequately: Report on the First Phase of the ALT project , ALT Report No 3, IKAT, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., Wiesman, F.J,  Donkers, J., Postma, E.O., and van den Herik, H.J. (2003). Text Classifiers for the ALT Project, ALT Report No 2, IKAT, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., Wiesman, F.J,  Donkers, J., Postma, E.O., and van den Herik, H.J. (2003). Rapportage Verkennende Automatische Beroepenclassificatie, ALT Report No 1, IKAT, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G., and Van den Herik, H.J. (2002), Further developments in efficient instance retraction. Technical report, CS 02-02, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Smirnov, E.N., van den Herik, H.J., and Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (2001). Generalising Boundary Sets, Technical Report CS 01-08, Department of Computer Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. ISSN 0922-8721.

Smirnov, E.N. and Braspenning, P. (1996). Disjunctive Version Space Approach to Concept Learning, Technical Report CS 96-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Limburg, The Netherlands.

Smirnov, E.N. (1995). SF2+ - A Method for Incremental Concept Learning with A Batch Procedure, Working Paper IIT/WP 9, Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.