1. Multi-Agent & Data Mining Group, UTS, Australia Chengqi Zhang Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology Sydney, Australia Longbing Cao Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology Sydney, Australia

2. Group

Multi-Agent & Data Mining Group

Web:http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au

People:

• Data mining

• • Shichao Zhang, Yanchang Zhao, Huaifeng Zhang, Zhenxing Qin, Dan Luo, Yuming Ou

• Agent & mining

• • Chengqi Zhang, Longbing Cao, Jiarui Ni, Chao Luo, Ting Yu

3. Research interest 4. Agent-driven data mining

Agent service-based mining infrastructure

• Software engineering

• System implementation

Agent-based data integration and management

Agent service-based parallel mining

5. Data mining driven agents

Data mining driven trading agents

Data mining driven agent recommender

6. Agent & Mining Interaction and Integration

Mutual issues in agent & mining

• Domain knowledge

• Human roles

• Ontology

• Constraint

• Actionability

• Intelligence metasynthesis

7. Projects

Research grants

• 5 Australian Research Council Discovery grants

• 1 Australian Research Council Linkage grant

8. Projects

Industry grants

• Australian Commonwealth Government -- Centrelink projects

• Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre projects

9. Applications

Ontology-based hybrid business intelligence systems

Agent service-based finance data mining

• Agent-based data source management

• Agent-based data preprocessing

• Agent service-based data mining web platform

• Data mining algorithm plug-n-play

• Actionable trading pattern mining

• Trading rule optimization

• Parallel mining

• Pairs/link mining

10. F-Trade (www.f-trade.info)

F-Trade: Financial Trading Rule Automated Development and Evaluation

Started in 2003

Sponsored by Australian Capital Markets CRC, Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific, UTS

Environment: web-based, distributed, Java, C, Window, Linux

11. F-Trade 12. Directions

Agent & mining interaction and integration

Mutual issues

Intelligence metasynthesis

• Agent-mining symbiosis

• Agent-human-cooperated data mining system