Introduction

This group bases at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia.

There are five research areas currently undertaken by the Intelligent Computing Group at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia namely, Data Mining, Intelligent Agents, Computational Linguistics, Evolutionary Computing and Bioinformatics. Data Mining and Intelligent Agents are ongoing projects, while Bioinformatics is still in its early stage.

Research on Data Mining focuses on two major techniques, which are classification and association rule mining for problems in large datasets. Particularly, we concentrate on building knowledge reduction models for data classification, as well as discovering strong association among data by various algorithms for searching frequent patterns. We aim to establish new techniques that can intelligently transform massive data into useful information and knowledge.

Research on Intelligent Agents narrows down to social agents, which is one of the main characteristics of intelligent agents. We focus on building learnable conversational agents via corpus-based methods. This covers a wide range of subtasks from dialogue act recognition to response generation. We envision an open-domain, portable architecture that can cover variety of business background such as theater reservation system, train ticket booking system, or help-desk system.

In evolutionary computing and optimization, finding a better algorithm for solving various combinatorial problem is our main concern. We are focusing on improving meta-heuristic techniques in solving university timetabling and agricultural problems involving optimization in planting areas and crop systems.

The semantic and natural language processing unit in this group believes that this area is going to be a key role in advance computing. We are dealing with the semantic knowledge representation of texts and focus on transforming the learned rules into a model reusable by computer programs. This will enable automation and enable seamless interoperation between systems, whereby human intervention is kept at a minimum. The technology roadmap we cover include ontology languages, flexible storage and querying facilities, reasoning engines and pattern recognition.

As for research on Bioinformatics, we would like to focus on genome annotation, which is marking the genes and other biological features in a DNA sequence. Our aim is to implement a software system that is able to locate the genes, the transfer DNA, and other features so we can make initial assignment of function to those genes. Since most current genome annotation systems are constantly changing and improving, our utmost goal is scalability of the software system to meet with research demand.

Funded Research Projects

Project Title	Project Leader	Amount (RM)	Duration	Grant Type
Web Usage Mining Techniques for Improving Web Document Prediction	Dr. Norwati Mustapha	111,000	Dec 2007 June 2009	ScienceFund
Intelligent Peri-Operative Decision Support System (iPoDSS) for Coronary Artery Disease Patients	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	89,500.00	Mac 2010	01-02-04-SF1020
An extended data mining models for large data bases  supported with a data mining query language.	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	72,000.00	Mei 2004	04-02-04-0801-EA001
Discovery of Recurrent Events in Video Databases	Dr. Norwati Mustapha	44,000	July 2007 June 2009	RUGS
An Investigation on Learning to Play the Game of Go without any Knowledge	Dr. Razali Yaakob	42,000	Nov 2007 Nov 2009	FRGS
Improving User Utterance Classifier Accuracy in Dialogue systems	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	30,000.00	Dis 2008	05-03-08-0475RU
Normative Framework for Knowledge Role in Learnable Conversational Agents	Dr. Aida Mustapha	30,000	Oct 2009 Jan 2011	RUGS
Extraction of Precise Answer Set for Open-ended Natural Language Question Answering System Based on Logical-Linguistic Approach	Dr. Rabiah Abdul Kadir	30,000	Jan 2008- Ogos 2009	RUGS
Semantic Understanding of Object-Oriented  Programming Language	Dr. Teh Noranis Mohd. Aris	25,000	Jan 2009 Jan 2011	RUGS
Mining Computer Science Students Academic Results for Performance Indicators	Dr. Lilly Suriani Affendey	30,000	July 2007 June 2009	RUGS
Pakej CAI –Beberapa Topik dalam Matematik	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	10000.00	Jan 1989
Neural Network Compiler	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	6500.00	April 1995	50205-95-49
Character Recognition	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	10000.00	Nov. 1996	50205-96-37
Entropy in Image Compression	Dr. Rabiah Abdul Kadir		2000	Short Term
An Intelligent Agent Model for Problem Solving in Computer Programming	Dr. Teh Noranis Mohd. Aris		2011-2014	FRGS

List of Postgraduate Students

Supervisor	Student	Level	Research Title
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Bin Sulaiman	Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin	PhD	Higher Order Centralized Scale-invariants for Unconstrained Isolated Handwritten Digits
	Azuraliza Abu Bakar	PhD	Data Mining Classification Using Rough Set and Integer Programming
	Omar A. A. Shiba	PhD	Case Slicing technique for feature extraction
	Norwati Mustapha	PhD	Frequent lexicographic algorithm for mining association rules
	Qasem Ahmad Al-Raideh	PhD	Decomposition technique on large data file
	Walid Saeed Abdoh Al-Shargabi	PhD	Twofold integer programming model for improving rough set classification accuracy in data mining
	Ungku Azmi Iskandar Ungku Chulan	PhD	Connector-based extraction with concept relational parserfor extracting semantic relation from text
	Aida Mustapha	PhD	Classfication-and-ranking architecture based on intentions for response generation systems
	Azizah Suliman	PhD	Handwritten digit recognition
	Yahya Mohammed Almurtadha	PhD	Mining and web navigation for anonymous used based recommender
	Shahin Akbar Poor	PhD	Arabic Handwritten recognition
	Sherif Abdulbari Ali	PhD	K-Means and Decision Tree for classification and ranking in dialogue system
	Reza Ghaemi	PhD	Clustering ensembles techniques
	Perumal Vijaya Prasad	PhD	Partial tumb recognition system
	Mohamad Hussin	PhD	Data mining and visualization using
	Shahnita Binti Shaharin	PhD	Agent Technology in Supporting Teaching and Learning at Higher Learning Institution
	Sazly Bin Anuar	PhD	Scratchpad Memory Management for Real-Time Embedded Systems
	Normadiah Binti Mahiddin	PhD	Intelligent Peri-Operative Decision Support System (iPoDSS) for Coronary Artery Disease Patients
	Lim Siew Mooi	PhD	A computational method for docking small molecules to protein
	Nur Izura Udzir	Master	Retrieval system using Neural Network model
	Razali Bin Yaakob	Master	Multi-aras rangkaian neural untuk pencaman warna
	Fahrul Hakim Bin Ayob	Master	Sistem penjadualan waktu kuliah fakulti di university menggunakan teknik algoritma genetic
	Tsan Ken Yim	Master	An Improvement on Extended Kalman Filter for Neural Network Training
	Yahya Mohammed Almurtadha	Master	Improved reinforcement-based profile learning for document filtering
	Sazly Anuar	Master	A Malay language-based visual programming environment for PDA
	Ng Sok Choo	Master	Machine learning approach for optimizing negotiation Agents
	Tang En Lai	Master	Neural network preference learning approaches for improving agent-based meeting scheduling problems
	Ghazali Shafie	Master	Association Mining on Academic Performance
	Sahar Ebadi	Master	Multi-Negotiation Agents
Dr.Norwati Mustapha	Idi Fulayi	Master	Building A French Stemmer Using A Dictionary Of French Root Words
	Roya Asadi	Master	Preprocessing and Pretraining of Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network
	Ong Huey Fang	Master	An Integrative Association Analysis for Gene Selection in Microarray Classification
	Ikmal Hisham Mohd Paris		Mining Computer Science Students Academic Results Performance Indicator
	Ziti Fariha Mohd Apandi		Discovering Recurrent Events in Video Databases
	Wan Rusila Wan Zulkifeli		Outliers in Web Mining
	Nasirah Abu Samah		Spam Detecting in Web Structure
	Ghazali Shafie		Subject Recommendation/Prediction using data mining
	Wong Pei Voon		Personalization in Folksonomies based on Resource-users graph and Pagerank with collaborative intelligence
	Nor Azura Husin	PhD	A Hybrid Model using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network for Predicting of Dengue Outbreak
	Amir Modarresi	PhD	Peer Selection in Ontology-Based Peer-to-Peer Model
	Mehrdad Jalali	PhD	WEBPUM: A Web based Recommendation System to Predict User Movement Through Web Usage Mining
	Mohammad Hossein Nadimi Shahraki	PhD	Prime-based method for interactive mining of frequent patterns
	Tareef Kamil Mustafa	PhD	Stylometry/Authorship attribution
	AbdulRidha H. Abass	PhD	Intrusion Detection System
	Madjid Khalilian	PhD	Concept Drift in Data Stream
Dr. Rabiah Abdul Kadir	Abdul Rahman Ali Ali Al-Maweri	PhD	An Expert System for Monitoring Hemodynamic Data in CICU
	Behrouz  hokaraiean	PhD	Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
	Hafiz Musa	Master	Text-to Speech Malay Syllable using Concatenative Speech Synthesizer
Dr. RAZALI BIN YAAKOB	Imas Sukaesih  Sitanggang	PhD	Modeling Peatland Fires Risk using Spatial Decision Tree
	Erzam Marlisah	PhD	Evolutionary Neural Network with Reinforcement Learning Framework Using Q-Learning Algorithm for Flexible Protein Docking
	Mohsen Joozdani	Master	Web Security