Interests and selected publications

Data analysis / mining (asterisks * denote student co-authors)

P. Laxminarayan*, S.A. Alvarez, C. Ruiz, and M. Moonis. "Mining Statistically Significant Associations for Exploratory Analysis of Human Sleep Data", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 10, No. 3, 440-450, July 2006 W.-Y. Lin*, S.A. Alvarez, and C. Ruiz. "Efficient Adaptive-Support Association Rule Mining for Recommender Systems", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 83-105, Jan. 2002 Current data mining research projects: Sleep       Cancer Co-organizer: Data Mining session at INAdP2004, Berlin, Germany, March 2004 RBDM2001: International Workshop on Rule-Based Data Mining, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2001

Approximate reasoning

Alvarez, S. A., "A Theory of Frame Transformations for Belief Combination", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 40 (3/4), pp 187-213, March 2004

Neural networks

Alvarez, S. A., Levitan, S.L., and Reggia, J.A. "Metrics for Cortical Map Organization and Lateralization", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 60 (1998), 27-47