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last update on January 2010 Short biography Ronnie Alves received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Minho at Braga, Portugal in April/2008 (PhD-Thesis), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Orlando Belo. While pursuing his PhD studies, he also served as a visiting researcher in the Data Mining Group (at DAIS Lab in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) led by Prof. Dr. Jiawei Han and in the Bioinformatics Research Group (at Pablo de Olavide University – Sevilla, Spain) led by Prof. Dr. Jesus Aguilar. Before getting his Ph.D, he also worked as Database Marketing Consultant in several industrial projects (From Retail to Telecommunications) in Brazil and Portugal. Currently he is a Postdoc Researcher in the Virtual Biology Group at the Institute of Signaling Developmental Biology and Cancer at Nice. Research interest Includes databases, data mining, data cubing, and its application on business and scientific data analysis. Bioinformatics We are particular interested in exploring data mining methods for differentiation, ranking and enrichment of gene sets originating from Transcriptomics studies. Publications indexed by [dblp] Books -BELO, Orlando (Org.) ; ALVES, R. (Org.) ; LOURENCO, Analia (Org.) . Data Gadgets 2005, Bringing Up Emerging Solutions for Data Warehousing Systems. 2005. v. 1. 100 p. -BELO, Orlando (Org.) ; ALVES, R. (Org.) ;  LOURENCO , Analia (Org.) ; AZEVEDO, Paulo (Org.) . Data Gadgets 2004, Bringing Up Emerging Solutions for Data Warehousing Systems. , 2004. v. 1. 84 p. Book chapters -ALVES, R. ; RIBEIRO, Joel ; BELO, Orlando ; HAN, Jiawei . Ranking Gradients in Multidimensional Spaces. In: Tho Manh Nguyen. (Org.). Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications. Hershey, PA, EUA: IGI Global, 2009, v. , p. 251-269. [pdf] Selected refereed publications -ALVES, R. ; Rodriguez-Baena, D. S. ; Aguilar-Ruiz, J. S.. Gene Association Analysis: A Survey of Frequent Pattern Mining from Gene Expression Data. BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS, p. 100, 2009. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando ; RIBEIRO, Joel . Mining Significant Change Patterns in Multidimensional Spaces. International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, v. 4, p. 219-241, 2009. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando ; RIBEIRO, Joel . Mining Top-k Multidimensional Gradients. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4654, p. 375-384, 2007. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . On the Computation of Maximal-Correlated Cuboids Cells. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4081, p. 165-174, 2006. [pdf] -FERREIRA, Pedro ; ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando ; CORTESAO, Luis. Establishing Fraud Detection Patterns Based on Signatures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4065, p. 526-538, 2006. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . Programming Relational Databases for itemset Mining over Large Transactional Tables. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 3808, p. 314-324, 2005. [pdf] Refereed conferences and workshops publications -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . Multidimensional Data Mining. In: IV Simposio Doutoral do Departamento de Informatica, 2007, Braga. SDDI'2007, 2007. [pdf] - ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . Effective OLAP Mining of Evolving Data Marts. In: 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), 2007, Banff, Canada. International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 2007. p. 120-128. [pdf] -FERREIRA, Pedro ; Libreloto, G. ; ALVES, R. . Discovering Co-Relations on Research Topics and Authors from the PubMed Database. In: 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA'07, 2007, Guimaraes. 2nd Workshop on Text Mining and Applications, 2007. [pdf] -FERREIRA, Pedro ; ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando ; RIBEIRO, Joel . Detecting Telecommunications Fraud based on Signature Clustering Analysis. In: 13th Portuguese Conference in Artificial Intelligence - EPIA'07, 2007, Guimaraes. Workshop on Business Intelligence, 2007. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . Analytical Data Mining for Stream Data Analysis. In: III Simposio Doutoral do Departamento de Informatica, 2006, Braga. SDDI'2006, 2006. -ALVES, R. ; FERREIRA, Pedro ; BELO, Orlando ; RIBEIRO, Joel ; LOPES, Joao ; CORTESAO, Luis . Discovering Telecom Fraud Situations through Mining Anomalous Behavior Patterns. In: ACM SIGKDD 2006, 2006, Philadelphia. 1st Workshop on Data Mining for Business Applications, 2006. [pdf] -FERREIRA, Pedro ; ALVES, R. ; AZEVEDO, Paulo ; BELO, Orlando . A Hybrid Method to Discover Inter-Transactional Rules. In: Jornadas de Ingenieria del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD), 2005, Granada. JISBD 2005, 2005. p. 131-138. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; BELO, Orlando . Mining Clickstream-based Data Cubes. In: International Conference On Enterprise Information Systems, 2004, Porto. ICEIS'2004, 2004. p. 583-586. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; CAVALCANTI, Fabio Torres ; FERREIRA, Pedro ; BELO, Orlando . Clickstreams, the basis to establish user navigation patterns on web sites. In: International Conference On Data Mining 2004, 2004, Malaga. Data Mining'2004, 2004. p. 87-132. [pdf] -ALVES, R. ; LOURENCO, Analia ; BELO, Orlando . When the Hunter Becomes the Prey: Tracking Down Web Crawlers in Clickstreams. In: Data Gadgets 2005, Bringing Up Emerging Solutions for Data Warehousing Systems, 2004, Malaga. Data Gadgets 2004, 2004. [pdf] -ALVES, R..; BELO, Orlando . An OLAM Approach to Analize e-commerce Clickstreams. In: I Simposio Doutoral do Departamento de Informatica, 2003, Braga. SDDI'2003, 2003. Technical reports -Integrating Pattern Growth Mining on SQL Server RDBMS. Technical Report N.4, Departamento de Informatica, Escola de Engenharia, (Universidade do Minho, May, 2005). [pdf] [t-sql schema] -Heuristic-Regression Approach to Crawler Pattern Identification on Clickstream Data. Technical Report N.3, Departamento de Informatica, Escola de Engenharia, (Universidade do Minho, June, 2004). [pdf] -Especificacao e Visualizacao de Modelos de Mineracao de Dados Baseados em PMML. Technical Report N.2, Departamento de Informatica, Escola de Engenharia, (Universidade do Minho, Dezembro, 2003). [pdf] -Mineracao de Dados em Sistemas Multidimensionais. Technical Report N.1, Departamento de Informatica, Escola de Engenharia, (Universidade do Minho, Novembro, 2003). [pdf]  Talks & Seminars -Mining Superimposed Fraud Situations in Telecommunications. LIACC/NIADD Seminar, (Universidade do Porto, Novembro, 2006). [ppt] -Mining Distance-based Outliers from Large Databases in Any Metric Space. DM@DAIS@UIUC Seminar, (DM Seminar, Fall/2006). [link] -Extracao de padroes em bases de dados de grandes dimensoes. MSDPA, Master course, (Universidade do Minho, Maio, 2005). [ppt] -Frequent Pattern Mining. MIUDA kickoff, (Universidade do Minho, Abril, 2005). [ppt] -Oracle 9i Database Fundamentals I. Instituto Politecnico do Porto, (Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao de Felgueiras, February/March, 2004) [ppt zip] -An OLAM Approach to Analyze e-commerce Clickstreams, with Orlando Belo. I Simposio Doutoral do Departamento de Informatica, SDDI 2003, (Soutelo, Portugal, October, 2003). [pdf] Organizational activities Reviewer DDDM09 Workshop with ICDM09. 2009. Reviewer SADM09 Workshop with ICDM09. 2009. Reviewer JBCS (Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society). 2008. Reviewer MDM08 Workshop with PKDD08. 2008. Reviewer DDDM08 Workshop with ICDM08. 2008. Reviewer SDM07. 2007. Reviewer SIGMOD07. 2007. Reviewer PAKDD07. 2007. Reviewer SIRC07. 2007. Reviewer SIMS07. 2007. Reviewer SIMS06. 2006. Reviewer SIRC06. 2006. Reviewer SIMS05. 2005. Reviewer SIRC05. 2005. Program Committee (Editor) Data Gadgets05. 2005. Reviewer SIMS04. 2004. Program Committee (Editor) Data Gadgets04. 2004.