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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of
Engineering Sciences
Phone: +972-8-6461397 Fax: +972-8-6477527 E-mail: {mlast}@bgu.ac.il |
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Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (2000)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), Data Mining, Software Testing, Web Mining, Data Warehousing, Fuzzy Logic, Cyber Intelligence.
Software
Quality Engineering / Data Mining Laboratory
Web Search Clustering System
(completed)
Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Web Intelligence and Security, Dead Sea, Israel - November 18-20, 2009
O. Maimon and M. Last, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining – The Info-Fuzzy Network (IFN) Methodology, Kluwer Publishers, Massive Computing, December 2000.
Publisher’s web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/book/978-0-7923-6647-8
Authors web site: http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~maimon/ifn-kdd/
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A. Schenker, H. Bunke, M. Last, A. Kandel, "Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining", World Scientific, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 62, 2005.
M. Last and A. Kandel (Editors), Fighting Terror in Cyberspace, World Scientific, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 65, 2005.
M. Last, P. S. Szczepaniak, Z. Volkovich, and A. Kandel (Editors), Advances in Web Intelligence and Data Mining, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 23, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
A. Kandel, H. Bunke, and M. Last (Editors), Applied Graph Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer-Verlag, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 52, 2007.
H. Bunke, A. Kandel, and M. Last (Editors), Applied Pattern Recognition, Springer-Verlag, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 91, 2008.
O. Maimon and M. Last, "Information-efficient control of robotic systems", Proc. of Second France Israel Symposium on Robotics, Saclay, April 1991.
O. Maimon and M. Last, "Information-efficient design of robotic
systems", Proc. of SPIE Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotic
Systems,
M. Last and O. Maimon, "An Information-Theoretic Approach to Data Mining", the Fifth Int'l Symposium on AI and Math, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jan. 1998. Conference site: http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai/
M. Last and A. Kandel, "Automated Perceptions in Data
Mining", invited paper, 1999 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference
Proceedings, Part I, pp. 190 - 197,
M. Last, O. Maimon, Automated Dimensionality Reduction of Data
Warehouses, Proceedings of
DMDW'2000 – the
2nd International Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses,
M. Last, A. Kandel, O. Maimon, E. Eberbach, Anytime Algorithm for Feature Selection,
Proceedings
of the Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current
Trends in Computing (RSCTC'2000),
A. Schenker,
M. Last, and A. Kandel, Design and Implementation of a Web Mining System for Organizing Search
Engine Results, Proceedings of the CAiSE'01 Workshop Data Integration over the
Web (DIWeb’01), pp. 62 – 75,
A. Schenker,
M. Last, and A. Kandel, A Term-Based Algorithm for Hierarchical Clustering of
Web Documents, Proceedings of
IFSA / NAFIPS 2001,
pp. 3076-3081,
W. Rodriguez, M. Last, A. Kandel and H. Bunke, 3-Dimensional Curve
Similarity Using String Matching, Proceedings of
IMS'2001- the 3rd International
Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems,
M. Last and A. Kandel, " Automated Detection of Outliers in Real-World Data", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech’2001), pp. 292-301, Bangkok, Thailand, November 27-29, 2001.
S. Dick, A.
Schenker, M. Last,
M. Last,
M.
Last,Data Mining and Computational Intelligence,
Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Processing and
Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2002), pp.
633 - 639,
A. Cohen, E.
Korach, M. Last and R. Ohayon, Fuzzy Based Paths Ordering Algorithm in
Networks with Imperfect QoS Information, to appear
in the Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Telecommunications
ICT’2003, February 23 – March 1,
Tahiti, French Polynesia.
A. Schenker,
M. Last,
A. Schenker,
M. Last,
M. Last, B.
Shapira, Y. Elovici, O. Zaafrany, A. Kandel, "Content-Based Methodology
for Anomaly Detection on the Web", Proceedings of Atlantic Web
Intelligence Conference (AWIC'03), Advances in Web Intelligence, E. Menasalvas
et al. (Editors), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Vol. 2663, pp. 113 – 123,
Madrid,
Spain, 5-7 May 2003.
B. Shapira,
M. Last, Y. Elovici, O. Zaafrany, A. Kandel, "Using Data Mining for
Detecting Terror-Related Activities on the Web", Proceedings of the 2nd
European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2003), University
of Reading, June 30 - July, 1, pp. 271-280, 2003.
A. Schenker,
M. Last,
A. Schenker,
M. Last,
M. Last, M.
Friedman, and A. Kandel, The Data Mining Approach to Automated Software
Testing", Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2003), pp. 388 - 396,
P. Saraph, M.
Last , A. Kandel, „Test Case Generation and Reduction by Automated Input-Output
Analysis, Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man
& Cybernetics (SMC
2003), Washington, D.C., USA, October 5–8, 2003.
M.
Sh. Levin and M.
Last, "Collection of Test Case Sequences: Covering of Function Cluster
Digraph", to appear in the Proceedings of IASTED International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004),
Innsbruck, Austria, February 16-18, 2004.
M.
Sh. Levin and M.
Last, Multi-Function System Testing, to appear in the Proceedings of the
Eighth IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE04), Tampa, FL, USA, 25-26 March, 2004.
A. Cohen, E.
Korach, M. Last and R. Ohayon, Online Call Allocation for Satellite
Resources, to appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on Next
Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced
Networking (NEW2AN'04),
A. Schenker, H. Bunke, M. Last, A. Kandel, "Building Graph-Based Classifier Ensembles by Random Node Selection", in F. Roli, J. Kittler, and T. Windeatt (Eds.), Proceedings of International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS2004), LNCS 3077, pp. 214-222, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
M. Sh Levin and M. Last, Test Case Sequences in System Testing: Selection of Test Cases for a Chain (Sequence) of Function Clusters to appear in the Proceedings of the 17th Int. Conf. on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE 2004), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Ottawa, Canada, May 17-20, 2004.
M. Friedman, M. Schneider, M. Last, O. Zaafrany and A. Kandel, „ A New Approach for Fuzzy Clustering of Web Documents, Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2004), pp. 377 – 381, Budapest, Hungary, July 25-29, 2004.
A. Schenker, H. Bunke, M. Last, A. Kandel, "Comparison of Algorithms for Web Document Clustering using Graph Representations of Data", Proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR2004), Lisbon, Portugal, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3138, pp. 190-197, August 2004.
O. Zaafrany, B. Shapira, Y. Elovici, M. Last, M. Friedman, M. Schneider, and A. Kandel, "OHT- Online-HTML Tracer for Detecting Terrorist Activities on the Web", Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2004), University of London, UK, June 28-29, pp. 371-378, 2004.
M. Friedman, M. Schneider, M. Last, B. Shapira, Y. Elovici, O. Zaafrany, and A. Kandel, "A Fuzzy-Based Algorithm for Web Document Clustering", Proceedings of NAFIPS-04, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 27-30, pp. 524-527, 2004.
A. Kandel, M. Last, G. Avrahami-Bakish, "An Innovative Method of Mining Traffic Data for Improving Control of an Urban Intersection", Invited Talk, Proceedings of IMS'2004: 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Sakarya, Turkey, pp. 32-41, September 6-8, 2004.
Y. Elovici, A. Kandel, M. Last, B. Shapira, O. Zaafrany, M. Schneider, M. Friedman, Terrorist Detection System, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2004), Pisa, Italy, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3202, pp. 540-542, September 2004.
M. Last, Multi-Objective Classification with Info-Fuzzy Networks, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2004), Pisa, Italy, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3201, pp. 239-249, September 2004.
A. Schenker, H. Bunke, M. Last, A. Kandel, "A Graph-based Framework for Web Document Mining", Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2004), University of Florence, Italy, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3163, S. Marinai and A. Dengel (Eds.), pp. 401-412, September 2004.
L. Cohen, G. Avrahami, and M. Last, Incremental Info-Fuzzy Algorithm for Real Time Data Mining of Non-Stationary Data Streams", Proceedings of TDM 2004 - ICDM 2004 Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications, November 01-04, 2004, Brighton, UK.
Ch. Glezer, M. Last, E. Nahmani , P. Shoval, "Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains", Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD'05), pp. 463-476, Porto, Portugal, 13-14 June, 2005.
A. Markov and M. Last, "A Simple, Structure-Sensitive Approach for Web Document Classification", in P.S. Szczepaniak et al. (Eds.), Advances in Web Intelligence, Proceedings of the 3rd Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC 2005), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 3528, pp. 293–298, Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
Y. Elovici, B. Shapira, M. Last, O. Zaafrany, M. Friedman, M. Schneider, A. Kandel, Content-Based Detection of Terrorists Browsing the Web Using an Advanced Terror Detection System (ATDS), IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2005), pp. 244-255, May 19-20, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
L. Cohen, G. Avrahami, M. Last, A. Kandel, and O. Kipersztok Incremental Knowledge Discovery in Traffic Sensors Data, Proceedings of SENSORFUSION 2005, Workshop on Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, Budapest, Hungary, July 14th, 2005.
M. Last, "Computing Temporal Trends in Web Documents", Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT 2005), pp. 615-620, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-9, 2005.
L. Cohen, G. Avrahami, M. Last, A. Kandel, and O. Kipersztok, "Incremental Classification of Nonstationary Data Streams", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams, pp. 117-124, October 7, 2005, Porto, Portugal.
A. Markov and M. Last, "Efficient Graph-Based Representation of Web Documents", Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining Graphs, Trees and Sequences (MGTS2005), pp. 52-62, October 7, 2005, Porto, Portugal.
M. Litvak, M. Last, and S. Kisilevich, "Improving Classification of Multi-Lingual Web Documents using Domain Ontologies", Proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies Workshop (KDO-2005), pp. 67-74, October 7, 2005, Porto, Portugal.
M. Last, S. Eyal, and A. Kandel, "Effective Black-Box Testing with Genetic Algorithms", to appear in the Proceedings of IBM Verification Conference 2005, Software Testing Track, Haifa, Israel, November 14, 2005.
M. Last, A. Markov, and A. Kandel, "Multi-Lingual Detection of Terrorist Content on the Web", Proceedings of the PAKDD'06 Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI'06), Singapore, April 9, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3917, pp. 16-30, Springer, 2006.
M. Last, "The Uncertainty Principle of Cross-Validation", Proceedings of IEEE-GrC 2006, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, pp. 275- 280, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006. Full paper (PDF)
A. Yampolsky, P. Shoval, and M. Last, "Class Diagrams and Use Cases - Experimental Examination of the Preferred Order of Modeling", Proceedings the 11th International Workshop on Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD06), pp. 453-464, Luxembourg, 5-6 June, 2006.
G. Danon, M. Schneider, M. Last, M. Litvak, and A. Kandel, "An Apriori-like algorithm for Extracting Fuzzy Association Rules between Keyphrases in Text Documents", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2006), Special Session on Fuzzy Sets in Probability and Statistics, pp. 731-738, Paris, France, July 2-7, 2006.
A. Markov, M. Last, and A. Kandel, Model-Based Classification of Web Documents Represented by Graphs, Proceedings of WebKDD 2006 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web at KDD 2006, pp. 31-38, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug. 20, 2006.
L. Cohen, G. Avrahami, M. Last, and A. Kandel, Efficient Learning Algorithms for Agents Mining Time-Changing Data Streams, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies and International Commerce (CIMCA'06), pp. 257, Sydney, Australia, 29 November - 1 December, 2006. Full Text.
G. Rachlin, M. Last, D. Alberg and A. Kandel, „ADMIRAL: A Data Mining Based Financial Trading System, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), pp. 720-725, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
S. Elnekave, M. Last, O. Maimon, Incremental Clustering of Mobile Objects, Proceedings of the ICDE workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (STDM'07), ), pp. 585-592, Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2007.
M. Litvak, M. Last, S. Kisilevich, Classification of Web Documents using Concept Extraction from Ontologies, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop "Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining" (AIS-ADM-07), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3-5, 2007, V. Gorodetsky et al. (Editors), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 4476, pp. 287-292, 2007.
M. Friedman, D. Havazelet, D. Alberg, A. Kandel, and M. Last, A New Lexicon-based Method for Automated Detection of Terrorist Web Documents, in Progress in Pattern Recognition, S. Singh and M. Singh (Editors), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advances in Pattern Recognition, Plymouth, UK, July 21-23, 2007, Advances in Pattern Recognition Series, Springer-Verlag, London, pp. 119-128, 2007.
S. Elnekave, M. Last, O. Maimon, A Compact Representation of Spatio-Temporal Data, Proceedings of 2007 International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM 07), Omaha, NE, USA, October 28, 2007, pp. 601-606. Full paper (PDF)
M. Last, R. Carel, and D. Barak, Utilization of Data- Mining Techniques for Evaluation of Patterns of Asthma Drugs Use by Ambulatory Patients in a Large Health Maintenance Organization, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop of Data Mining in Medicine 2007 (DMMed '07), Omaha, NE, USA, October 28, 2007, pp. 169-174. Full paper (PDF)
M. Last, Predicting and Optimizing Classifier Utility with the Power Law, Proceedings of ICDM 2007 Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications, Omaha, NE, USA, October 28, 2007, pp. 219-224. Full paper (PDF)
M. Last and A. Savelyev, Enhanced Anytime Algorithm for Induction of Oblivious Decision Trees, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams, Warsaw, Poland, September 17, 2007, pp. 95-106. Full paper (PDF)
S. Elnekave, M. Last, O. Maimon, Predicting Future Locations Using Clusters' Centroids, Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007), Seattle, Washington, USA, November 7-9, 2007, pp. 368-371. Full paper (PDF)
S. Elnekave, M. Last, O. Maimon, Y. Ben-Shimol, H. Einsiedler, M. Friedman, M. Siebert, Discovering Regular Groups of Mobile Objects Using Incremental Clustering, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication WPNC’08, Hannover, Germany, March 27, 2008.
D. Oelke, P. Bak, D. A. Keim, M. Last, G. Danon, Visual Evaluation of Text Features for Document Summarization and Analysis, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2008 (IEEE VAST 2008), Columbus, OH, USA, October 19-24, 2008.
M. Last and A. Gorelik, Using Sonification for Mining Time Series Data, Proceedings of the 9th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2008), Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 24, 2008, pp. 63-72. Full Text.
M. Litvak and M. Last, Graph-Based Keyword Extraction for Single-Document Summarization, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (MMIES2), Manchester, UK, August 23, 2008, pp. 17–24.
D. Alberg, M. Last, S. Elnekave, “A Spatio-Temporal Simulation Model for Movement Data Handling and Visualization”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM-08) In Cooperation with IEEE ICDM 2008, Pisa, Italy, 15 December 2008.
D. Alberg, M. Last, R. Neuman, A. Sharon, "Induction of Mean Output Prediction Trees from Continuous Temporal Meteorological Data,", 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2009, pp. 208-213. Full Text.
M. Last, "Improving Data Mining Utility with Projective Sampling", Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-09), Paris, France, June 28 – July 1, 2009, pp 487-496. Full Text.
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Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic (Fall 2007) HighLearn
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EEL 4852 Database Design (Fall 2000)
CIS 4930 - Computer Simulation (Fall 2000)
CEN 4020 - Software Engineering (Summer 2000)
CIS 4930 / 6930 - Data Mining (Fall 1999)
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