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Publications:

2013:

• A Taxonomy of Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Techniques
  Dinusha Vatsalan, Peter Christen, and Vassilios Verykios.
  In Information Systems (Elsevier), volume 38, issue 6, September 2013, Pages 946-969.
  Article available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2012.11.005.

• Adaptive Temporal Entity Resolution on Dynamic Databases
  Peter Christen and Ross Gayler.
  Proceedings of the Seventeenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13), Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013.
  Article available online from Springer Link.

• Sorted Nearest Neighborhood Clustering for Efficient Private Blocking
  Dinusha Vatsalan and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the Seventeenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13), Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013.
  Article available online from Springer Link.

• Cross Language Prediction of Vandalism on Wikipedia using Article Views and Revisions
  Khoi-Nguyen Tran and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the Seventeenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13), Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013.
  Article available online from Springer Link.

• Dynamic Similarity-Aware Inverted Indexing for Real-Time Entity Resolution
  Banda Ramadan, Peter Christen, Huizhi Liang, Ross Gayler, and David Hawking.
  In proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government (DMApps 2013),
  held at the Seventeenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13), Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013.
  Paper (pdf, 272 KB)

• Predicting High Impact Academic Papers using Citation Network Features
  Daniel McNamara, Paul Wong, Peter Christen and Kee Siong Ng.
  In proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government (DMApps 2013),
  held at the Seventeenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13), Gold Coast, Australia, April 2013.
  Paper (pdf, 328 KB)

2012:

• A Bag Reconstruction Method for Multiple Instance Classification and Group Record Linkage
  Zhichun Fu, Jun Zhou, Furong Peng, and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'12), Nanjing, China, December 2012.
  Article available online from Springer Link.

• An Iterative Two-Party Protocol for Scalable Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage
  Dinusha Vatsalan and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'12), Sydney, December 2012.
  Paper, (pdf, 279 KB)

• CA4IOT: Context Awareness for Internet of Things
  Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, Conference on Internet of Things,
  and Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (GreenCom/iThings/CPSCom'12), Besancon, France, November 2012.

• Time-aware Topic Recommendation Based on Micro-blogs
  Huizhi Liang, Yue Xu, Dian Tjondronegoro, and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), Hawaii, October 2012

• Capturing Sensor Data from Mobile Phones using Global Sensor Network Middleware
  Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Ali Salehi, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Internet-of-Things Communications and Networking (IoT-CN),
  held at the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sydney, September 2012.

• A Survey of Indexing Techniques for Scalable Record Linkage and Deduplication
  Peter Christen
  In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 12, no. 9, September 2012.
  Article available online from Computer.org digital library.

• Data Matching - Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection
  Peter Christen.
  Springer, Data-Centric Systems and Applications, August 2012.
  Preface, table of contents, and references are available for download.

• Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media
  Minkyoung Kim, Lexing Xie, and Peter Christen.
  International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Dublin, June 2012.
  Paper (pdf, 1.3 MB)

• Multiple Instance Learning for Group Record Linkage
  Zhichun Fu, Jun Zhou, Peter Christen and Mac Boot.
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'12), Kuala Lumpur, May-June 2012.
  Article available online from Springer Link.

• Connecting Mobile Things to Global Sensor Network Middleware using System-generated Wrappers
  Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Ali Salehi, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
  Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE),
  ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data and Principles of Database Systems (SIGMOD/PODS), Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012.
  Paper available online from ACM Digital Library.

• New Objective Functions for Social Collaborative Filtering.
  Joseph Noel, Scott Sanner, Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Peter Christen, Lexing Xie, Edwin Bonilla, Ehsan Abbasnejad, and Nicolas Della Penna.
  World Wide Web conference (WWW'12), Lyon, April 2012.
  Paper available online from WWW'12 Proceedings.

2011:

• Automatic Cleaning and Linking of Historical Census Data using Household Information
  Zhichun Fu, Peter Christen and Mac Boot.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM'11), held at IEEE ICDM, Vancouver, December 2011.

• Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'11)
  Peter Vamplew, Andrew Stranieri, Kok-Leong Ong, Peter Christen and Paul Kennedy (editors).
  Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference, Ballarat, December 2011.
  Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 121.

• An Efficient Two-Party Protocol for Approximate Matching in Private Record Linkage
  Dinusha Vatsalan, Peter Christen and Vassilios Verykios.
  Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'11), Ballarat, December 2011.
  Paper (pdf, 880 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 121.

• A Supervised Learning and Group Linking Method for Historical Census Household Linkage
  Zhichun Fu, Peter Christen and Mac Boot.
  Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'11), Ballarat, December 2011.
  Paper (pdf, 860 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 121.

• Fake Injection Strategies for Private Phonetic Matching
  Alexandros Karakasidis, Vassilios Verykios and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM2011), Leuven, Belgium, September 2011.

• Analysis of Cluster Migrations using Self-Organizing Maps
  Denny, Peter Christen and Graham Williams.
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Behavior Informatics (BI2011),
  15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2011), Shenzhen, China, May 2011.

• Robust Record Linkage Blocking using Suffix Arrays and Bloom Filters
  Timothy de Vries, Hui Ke, Sanjay Chawla and Peter Christen.
  In ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 2, no. 5, February 2011.
  Available online.

2010:

• Visualizing Temporal Cluster Changes using Relative Density Self-Organizing Maps
  Denny, Graham Williams and Peter Christen
  In Knowledge and Information Systems Springer, vol. 25, no. 2, November 2010.
  Paper available online.

• New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining
  T. Theeramunkong, C. Nattee, P.J.L. Adeodato, N. Chawla; Peter Christen, P. Lenca, J. and G Williams (editors).
  Revised Selected Papers from the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) workshops, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009.
  

2009:

• Data Mining and Analytics 2009
  Paul Kennedy, Kok-Leong Ong and Peter Christen (editors).
  Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2009), Melbourne, December 2009.
  Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 101.

• Robust Record Linkage Blocking using Suffix Arrays
  Timothy de Vries, Hui Ke, Sanjay Chawla and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, November 2009.
  Paper available online.

• Similarity-Aware Indexing for Real-Time Entity Resolution
  Peter Christen, Ross Gayler and David Hawking.
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, November 2009.
  Paper available online.
  The full paper (10 pages) is published as an ANU Computer Science technical report.
  Report (pdf, 273 KB)   Report (ps.gz, 285 KB)

• Development and User Experiences of an Open Source Data Cleaning, Deduplication and Record Linkage System
  Peter Christen
  In SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2009.
  Available online: Paper (pdf, 778 KB)

• Accurate Synthetic Generation of Realistic Personal Information
  Peter Christen and Agus Pudjijono
  Proceedings of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009.
  Paper available online.
  Submitted paper (12 pages, pdf, 645 KB)
  

• Geocode Matching and Privacy Preservation
  Peter Christen
  Invited Presentation at the PinKDD 2008 workshop held at the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, Las Vegas, August 2008.
  In Revised, Selected Papers, F. Bonchi, E. Ferrari, W. Jiang and B. Malin (editors).
  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 5456, 2009.
  Paper available online.
  

2008:

• Visualization of Temporal Changes in Cluster Structures using Self-Organizing Maps
  Denny, Graham Williams, and Peter Christen
  Accepted as regular paper for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pisa, Italy, December 2008.
  Please contact Denny if you are interested in this paper.

• Data Mining and Analytics 2008
  John Roddick, Jiuyong Li, Peter Christen and Paul Kennedy (editors).
  Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Glenelg, Adelaide, November 2008.
  Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 87.

• Towards Scalable Real-Time Entity Resolution using a Similarity-Aware Inverted Index Approach
  Peter Christen and Ross Gayler
  In proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Glenelg, Adelaide, November 2008.
  Paper (pdf, 218 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 87.

• Automatic Record Linkage using Seeded Nearest Neighbour and Support Vector Machine Classification
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, Las Vegas, August 2008.
  Paper available online.
  

• Febrl - An Open Source Data Cleaning, Deduplication and Record Linkage System with a Graphical User Interface
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the demo session at the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, Las Vegas, August 2008.
  Paper available online.
  

• Automatic Training Example Selection for Scalable Unsupervised Record Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
  Paper available online.
  Submitted paper (12 pages, pdf, 146 KB)   Submitted paper (12 pages, ps.gz, 142 KB)

• Exploratory Hot Spot Profile Analysis using Interactive Visual Drill-Down Self-Organizing Maps
  Denny, Graham J. Williams and Peter Christen.
  Proceedings of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
  Paper available online.

• Febrl - A Freely Available Record Linkage System with a Graphical User Interface
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Health Data and Knowledge Management (HDKM), Wollongong, January 2008.
  Paper (pdf, 748 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 80.

2007:

• Data Mining and Analytics 2007
  Peter Christen, Paul J. Kennedy, Jiuyong Li, Inna Kolyshkina and Graham J. Williams (editors).
  Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.
  Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 70.

• A Two-Step Classification Approach to Unsupervised Record Linkage
  Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, December 2007.
  Paper (pdf, 440 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 70.

• Exploratory Multilevel Hot Spot Analysis: Australian Taxation Office Case Study
  Denny, Graham J. Williams, and Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, December 2007.
  Paper (pdf, 759 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 70.

• Evaluation of a Graduate Level Data Mining Course with Industry Participants
  Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, December 2007.
  Paper (pdf, 436 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 70.

• Towards parameter-free blocking for scalable record linkage
  Peter Christen
  Technical Report TR-CS-07-03
  ANU Joint Computer Science Technical Report Series, August 2007.
  Report (pdf, 201 KB)   Report (ps.gz, 199 KB)

• Quality and Complexity Measures for Data Linkage and Deduplication
  Peter Christen and Karl Goiser
  Chapter in the book Quality Measures in Data Mining, vol. 43, Studies in Computational Intelligence.
  F. Guillet and H. Hamilton (eds), Springer, March 2007.
  Available online at SpringerLink.

2006:

• Privacy-Preserving Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
  Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
  Final 5-page version: Paper (pdf, 53 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 35 KB)
  Submitted 11-page version: Paper (pdf, 118 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 74 KB)

• A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues
  Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Workshop on Mining Complex Data (MCD) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
  Final 5-page version: Paper (pdf, 57 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 40 KB)
  Submitted 12-page version available as:
  Technical Report TR-CS-06-02
  ANU Joint Computer Science Technical Report Series, September 2006.
  Report (pdf, 248 KB)   Report (ps.gz, 236 KB)

• Dynamic Algorithm Selection Using Reinforcement Learning
  Warren Armstrong, Peter Christen, Eric McCreath and Alistair Rendell
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining, Hobart, Australia, December 2006.
  Paper (pdf, 254 KB)

• Data Mining and Analytics 2006
  Peter Christen, Paul J. Kennedy, Jiuyong Li, Simeon J. Simoff and Graham J. Williams (editors).
  Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2006), Sydney, November, 2006.
  Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 61.

• Towards Automated Record Linkage
  Karl Goiser and Peter Christen
  In proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2006), Sydney, November 2006.
  Paper (pdf, 513 KB) available online from Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), vol. 61.

• Secure Health Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
  Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Proceedings of the National e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium (ehPASS), Brisbane, October 2006.
  Paper (pdf, 139 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 127 KB)

• Automated Geocoding of Routinely Collected Health Data in New South Wales
  Richard Summerhayes, Paul Holder, John Beard, Peter Christen, Alan Willmore and Tim Churches
  The NSW Public Health Bulletin, volume 17, number 3-4, March-April 2006.
  Online version available here.

• A Probabilistic Geocoding System Utilising a Parcel Based Address File
  Peter Christen, Alan Willmore and Tim Churches
  In Advances in Data Mining: Theory, Methodology, Techniques, and Applications. Simeon Simoff and Graham Williams (editors). State-of-the-Art Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3755, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
  Available online at SpingerLink, LNCS 3755.
  Copyright for this publication is held by the Springer Verlag.
  

2005:

• Automated Probabilistic Address Standardisation and Verification
  Peter Christen and Daniel Belacic
  Proceedings of the fourth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2005), Sydney, December 2005.
  Paper (pdf, 146 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 204 KB)

• Assessing Deduplication and Data Linkage Quality: What to Measure?
  Peter Christen and Karl Goiser
  Proceedings of the fourth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2005), Sydney, December 2005.
  Paper (pdf, 178 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 163 KB)

• Probabilistic Data Generation for Deduplication and Data Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05), Brisbane, July 2005.
  Copyright for this publication is held by the Springer Verlag.
  Available online at SpingerLink, LNCS 3578.
  Paper (pdf, 124 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 135 KB)

• Febrl - Freely extensible biomedical record linkage (Manual, release 0.3)
  Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Available online from SourceForge.Net, April 2005.
  Manual (pdf, 960 KB)   Manual (pdf, 282 KB)

• A Probabilistic Deduplication, Record Linkage and Geocoding System
  Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Proceedings of the ARC Health Data Mining workshop, University of South Australia, April 2005.
  Paper (pdf, 136 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 134 KB)

2004:

• A Probabilistic Geocoding System based on a National Address File
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Alan Willmore
  Proceedings of the Australasian Data Mining Conference, Cairns, December 2004.
  Paper (pdf, 120 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 128 KB)

• Some Methods for Blindfolded Record Linkage
  Tim Churches and Peter Christen
  Published online at BioMed Central Medical Informatics and Decision Making, June 2004.
  For abstract and downloadable PDF file see here.

• Febrl - A Parallel Open Source Data Linkage System
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Markus Hegland
  Proceedings of the 8th PAKDD'04 (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Sydney, May 2004.
  Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, (3056), available online at Springerlink.
  Copyright for this publication is held by the Springer Verlag.
  Paper (pdf, 202 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 81 KB)

• Blind Data Linkage using n-gram Similarity Comparisons
  Tim Churches and Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the 8th PAKDD'04 (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Sydney, May 2004.
  Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, (3056), available online here.
  Copyright for this publication is held by the Springer Verlag.
  Paper (pdf, 176 KB)   Paper (ps.gz, 68 KB)

2003:

• A Comparison of Fast Blocking Methods for Record Linkage
  Rohan Baxter, Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Cleaning, Record Linkage and Object Consolidation at the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington DC, August 2003.
  Paper 3 pages (pdf, 87 KB)   Paper 6 pages (pdf, 138 KB)

2002:

• Preparation of name and address data for record linkage using hidden Markov models
  Tim Churches, Peter Christen, Kim Lim and Justin X Zhu
  Published online at BioMed Central Medical Informatics and Decision Making, December 2002.
  For abstract and downloadable PDF file see here. Also available locally: Paper (pdf, 353 KB)

• Probabilistic Name and Address Cleaning and Standardisation
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Justin Xi Zhu
  Proceedings of the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
  Paper (ps.gz, 74 KB)   Paper (pdf, 158 KB)

• How Fast is '-fast'? Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Performance Counters on UltraSPARC-III
  Adam Czezowski and Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
  Paper (ps.gz, 82 KB)   Paper (pdf, 174 KB)

• High-Performance Computing Techniques for Record Linkage
  Peter Christen, Justin Xi Zhu, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Ole M. Nielsen, Tim Churches and Kim Lim
  Proceedings of the Australian Health Outcomes Conference (AHOC-2002), Canberra, July 2002.
  Paper (ps.gz, 95 KB)   Paper (pdf, 233 KB)

• Parallel Computing Techniques for High-Performance Probabilistic Record Linkage
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Ole M. Nielsen, Tim Churches and Kim Lim
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Health Data Linkage, Sydney, March 2002.
  Paper (ps.gz, 107 KB)   Paper (pdf, 228 KB)

• Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Event Counters
  Peter Christen and Adam Czezowski
  Technical Report TR-CS-02-01, ANU Joint Computer Science Technical Report Series, February 2002.
  Report (ps.gz, 131 KB)   Report (pdf, 238 KB)

2001:

• DMtools - Open Source Software for Database Mining
  Peter Christen, Ole M. Nielsen and Markus Hegland
  Accepted by the Workshop on Database Support for KDD (at the PKDD'2001 Conference), Freiburg, Germany, September 2001.
  Paper (ps.gz, 81 KB)

• Parallel Data Mining on a Beowulf Cluster
  Peter Christen, Ole M. Nielsen, Markus Hegland and Peter E. Strazdins
  Proceedings of the HPC Asia 2001 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, September 2001.
  Paper (ps.gz, 264 KB)   Paper (pdf.gz, 311 KB)

• A Scalable Parallel FEM Surface Fitting Algorithm for Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Ole M. Nielsen and Irfan Altas
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mining Spatial and Temporal Data (at the PAKDD-2001 Conference), Hong Kong, April 2001.
  Paper (ps.gz, 229 KB)

• A Toolbox Approach to Flexible and Efficient Data Mining
  Ole M. Nielsen, Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Tatiana Semenova and Timothy Hancock
  Proceedings of the PAKDD-2001 Conference, Hong Kong, April 2001.
  Published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence series, LNAI2035.
  Copyright for this publication is held by the Springer Verlag.
  Paper (ps.gz, 143 KB)   Paper (pdf, 183 KB)

• Towards a Parallel Data Mining Toolbox
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Ole M. Nielsen, Stephen Roberts, Peter E. Strazdins, Irfan Altas, Tatiana Semenova and Timothy Hancock
  Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2001), San Francisco, April 2001. Workshop Parallel and Distributed Data Mining.
  Copyright 2001 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Reprinted for the Proceedings of the IPDPS-2001.
  Paper (ps.gz, 139 KB)
  

• Data Mining with Python
  Ole M. Nielsen, Peter Christen, Markus Hegland and Tatiana Semenova
  Proceedings of the 9th International Python Conference, Long Beach, California, March 2001.
  Paper available upon request from: Ole Nielsen.

• A Scalable Parallel FEM Surface Fitting Algorithm for Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts and Irfan Altas
  Technical Report TR-CS-01-01, ANU Joint Computer Science Technical Report Series, January 2001.
  Report (ps.gz, 255 KB)   Report (pdf, 377 KB)

2000:

• Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Surface Fitting and Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Ole M. Nielsen, Stephen Roberts, Peter E. Strazdins and Irfan Altas
  Accepted for publication by the Elsevier Journal of Parallel Computing, special issue on Aspects of Parallel Computing for Linear Systems and Associated Problems, September 2000.

• Data Mining of Administrative Claims Data of Pathology Services
  Simon Hawkins, Graham Williams, Rohan Baxter, Peter Christen, Michael Fett, Markus Hegland, Fuchun Huang, Ole Nielsen, Tatiana Semenova and Andrew Smith
  Accepted by the Thirty-Fourth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), January 2001.
  Available upon request from: Rohan Baxter, CSIRO CMIS.

• Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Predictive Modelling
  Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Ole Møller Nielsen, Stephen Roberts and Irfan Altas
  Proceedings of the Data Mining 2000 Conference, Cambridge, UK, N. Ebecken and C.A. Brebbia, editors, in Data Mining II, WIT Press, Southhampton Boston, 2000.
  Paper (ps.gz, 606 KB)

1999:

• The Integrated Delivery of Large-Scale Data Mining: The ACSYS Data Mining Project
  Graham Williams, Irfan Altas, Sergey Barkin, Peter Christen, Markus Hegland, Alonso Marquez, Peter Milne, Rajehndra Nagappan and Stephen Roberts
  KDD-99 Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel KDD Systems. San Diego, August 1999,
  Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1759.

• Parallelization of a Finite Element Surface Fitting Algorithm for Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Irfan Altas, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Kevin Burrage and Roger Sidje. Proceedings of the CTAC-99 Conference. Canberra, 20-24 September 1999.
  Paper (ps.gz, 552 KB)   Slides (ps.gz, 614 KB)

• A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with Dynamic Load Balancing
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the CTAC-99 Conference. Canberra, 20-24 September 1999.
  Paper (ps.gz, 467 KB)   Slides (ps.gz, 218 KB)

• A Parallel Finite Element Surface Fitting Algorithm for Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Irfan Altas, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Kevin Burrage and Roger Sidje
  Proceedings of the ParCo-99 Conference, Delft, 17-20 August 1999.

• A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with Dynamic Load Balancing
  Peter Christen
  Dissertation (PhD thesis), Institut für Informatik, Universität Basel. February 1999.
  Available upon request.

1998:

• PAISS - Design and Implementation of a Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with Dynamic Load Balancing
  Peter Christen
  Technischer Bericht 98-5, October 1998.
  Report (ps.gz, 193 KB)

• A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with Dynamic Load Balancing
  Peter Christen
  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference of Supercomputing (ICS) 1998. Melbourne, 13-17 July 1998.

• Dynamic Load Balancing within a Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver
  Peter Christen. Proceedings of the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) Conference 1998. Amsterdam, 21-23 April 1998, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1401.

1996:

• Speicher-Schemata für spärlich besetzte Matrizen (German)
  Peter Christen
  Institut für Informatik, Universität Basel. Technischer Bericht 96-4, September 1996.
  Report (ps.gz, 203 KB)

1995:

• Test- und Diagnosesoftware für Alpha7 (German)
  Peter Christen
  Diplomarbeit (MS thesis), Institut für Elektronik, ETH Zürich. Prof.Dr. A. Gunzinger, July 1995.
  

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Selected Presentations:

2012:

• Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage
  Peter Christen and Vassilios Verykios
  Tutorial at the Sixteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'12), Kuala Lumpur, May-June 2012.
  Slides, 6-up, PDF, 8.1 MBytes
  Slides, PDF, 2.4 MBytes

2011:

• Privacy-Preserving Data Matching
  Peter Christen
  Invited presentation to the Data Matching Working Group
  Australian Government Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, July 2011.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 2.0 MB)

• Scalable Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage using Similarity-Based Indexing
  Invited presentation at Fujitsu Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan, June 2011.
  Slides available upon request.

2010:

• Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  A 3-lecture module held at the ANU Machine Learning Summer School, Canberra, September 2010.
  Slides lecture 1, 6up (pdf, 136 KB)   Slides lecture 2, 6up (pdf, 305 KB)   Slides lecture 3, 6up (pdf, 136 KB)

2009:

• Privacy-preserving Data Sharing and Matching
  Peter Christen
  Departmental seminar at the ANU Computer Sciences Lab, Canberra, May 2009.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 2.1 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 634 KB)

• Accurate Synthetic Generation of Realistic Personal Information
  Peter Christen and Agus Pudjijono
  Presentation at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009.
  Slides 6up (pdf, 1.5 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 792 KB)

• Data Linkage - An Overview and Research at the ANU
  Peter Christen
  Invited Presentation at the ANU Supercomputer Facility, Canberra, March 2009.
  Slides 6up (pdf, 2.2 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 721 KB)

2008:

• Towards Scalable Real-Time Entity Resolution using a Similarity-Aware Inverted Index Approach
  Peter Christen and Ross Gayler
  Presentation at the Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Glenelg, Adelaide, November 2008.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.4 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 491 KB)

• Privacy-Preserving Data Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Part of the tutorial on Privacy preserving data sharing and mining held at the Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Glenelg, Adelaide, November 2008.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 3.2 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 872 KB)

• Data Matching of Bibliographic Data: Recent Advances and an Open Source Matching System
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the 2008 Annual Forum of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR), Canberra, November 2008.
  Slides 6up (pdf, 1.9 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 839 KB)

• Automatic Record Linkage using Seeded Nearest Neighbour and Support Vector Machine Classification
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, Las Vegas, August 2008.
  Slides 6up (pdf, 813 KB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 293 KB)

• Geocode Matching and Privacy Preservation
  Invited Presentation at the PinKDD 2008 workshop held at the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, Las Vegas, August 2008.
  Slides 9up (pdf, 1.5 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 513 KB)

• Automatic Training Example Selection for Scalable Unsupervised Record Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.2 MB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 391 KB)

2007:

• A Two-Step Classification Approach to Unsupervised Record Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.3 MB)

• Evaluation of a Graduate Level Data Mining Course with Industry Participants
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.2 MB)

• Data Linkage Research at the ANU
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at the The Distillery, Canberra, July 2007.
  Slides 8up (pdf.gz, 1.7 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.4 MB)  

2006:

• Privacy-Preserving Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
  Also presented as a Departmental seminar at the ANU Department of Computer Science, Canberra, December 2006.
  Slides (pdf, 859 KB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.4 MB)

• A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Workshop on Mining Complex Data (MCD) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
  Also presented as a Departmental seminar at the ANU Department of Computer Science, Canberra, December 2006.
  Slides (pdf, 830 KB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.3 MB)

• Recent Developments in Data Linkage and Research at the ANU
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at the Australian Taxation Office, data matching personnel, Canberra, December 2006.
  Slides 10up (ps.gz, 1.6 MB)

• Data Quality Aspects in Data Mining, Data Linkage and Geocoding
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at Geoscience Australia, Canberra, November 2006.
  Slides (pdf, 1.7 MB)   Slides (ps.gz, 1.2 MB)   Slides 9up (ps.gz, 1.2 MB)

• Secure Health Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
  Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Presentation at the National e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium (ehPASS), Brisbane, October 2006.
  Slides (pdf, 779 KB)   Slides 9up (ps.gz, 363 KB)

• Data Linkage Techniques: Past, Present and Future
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at the Australian Taxation Office, Canberra, October 2006.
  (same set of slides as used for the Analytics Practise Group presentation, see below).

• Data Linkage Techniques: Past, Present and Future
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at the Canberra Analytics Practise Group, Canberra, August 2006.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 1.5 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 630 KB)   Slides (pdf, 1.5 MB)

2005:

• Automated Probabilistic Address Standardisation and Verification
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the fourth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2005), Sydney, December 2005.
  Slides 8up (ps.gz, 428 KB)   Slides (pdf, 892 KB)   Slides (ps.gz, 425 KB)

• Reflections on COMP2720 (Automating Tools for New Media)
  Peter Christen
  Departmental seminar at the ANU Department of Computer Science, Canberra, November 2005.
  Slides 6up (ps.gz, 3.0 MB)   Slides 6up (pdf, 523 KB)

• Recent Developments in Data Linkage Technologies
  Peter Christen
  Invited talk at the Data Linkage Symposium of the Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, Canberra, September 2005.
  Slides (pdf, 1.7 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 690 KB)

• Probabilistic Data Generation for Deduplication and Data Linkage
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05), Brisbane, July 2005.
  Slides (pdf, 704 KB)   Slides (ps.gz, 269 KB)   Slides 8up (pdf, 677 KB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 272 KB)

• Probabilistic Deduplication, Data Linkage and Geocoding
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the DAMA Canberra Chapter, June 2005.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 2.7 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.3 MB)  

• Probabilistic Deduplication, Record Linkage and Geocoding
  Peter Christen
  Guest lecture for MATH1500: ANU Computational Science Undergraduate Seminar, ANU, May 2005.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 2.1 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 989 KB)  

• A very short Introduction to Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  Guest lecture for COMP3420: Database Systems, ANU, May 2005.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 74 KB)   Slides 8up (ps, 136 KB)   Slides 1up (pdf, 88 KB)

• Febrl - A parallel open source record linkage and geocoding system
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Data Linkage Workshop, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, April 2005.
  Slides 8up (pdf, 2.4 MB)   Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.2 MB)

• A Probabilistic Deduplication, Record Linkage and Geocoding System
  Peter Christen and Tim Churches
  Presentation at the ARC Health Data Mining workshop, University of South Australia, April 2005.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 854 KB)   Slides 4up (ps.gz, 389 KB)   Slides (pdf, 885 KB)   Slides (ps.gz, 386 KB)

2004:

• A Probabilistic Geocoding System based on a National Address File
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Alan Willmore
  Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Conference, Cairns, December 2004.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.6 MB)   Slides 4up (ps.gz, 752 KB)   Slides (pdf, 1.6 MB)   Slides (ps.gz, 751 KB)

• Febrl - A parallel open source data linkage and geocoding system
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Open Source Workshop, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, July 2004.
  Slides 4up (pdf, 1.3 MB)   Slides 4up (ps.gz, 595 KB)

• Febrl - A parallel open source data linkage system
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the PAKDD 2004, Sydney, May 2004.
  Slides (pdf, 655 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 637 KB)

• Blind data linkage using n-gram similarity comparisons
  Peter Christen
  Short presentation at the PAKDD 2004, Sydney, May 2004.
  Slides (pdf, 510 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 500 KB)

2003:

• Data Linkage for Bioinformatics
  Peter Christen
  Invited specialist talk at the BioInfoSummer: AMSI Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics, ANU, Canberra, December 2003.
  Slides (pdf, 462 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 453 KB)   Slides 4up (ps.gz, 211 KB)

2002:

• Probabilistic Name and Address Cleaning and Standardisation
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Justin Xi Zhu
  Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
  Slides 4up (ps.gz, 345 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 764k KB)

• How Fast is '-fast'? Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Performance Counters on UltraSPARC-III
  Adam Czezowski and Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
  Slides 4up (ps.gz, 335 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 745k KB)

• High-Performance Computing Techniques for Record Linkage
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches, Markus Hegland, Kim Lim, Ole M. Nielsen, Stephen Roberts and Justin Xi Zhu
  Presentation at the Australian Health Outcomes Conference (AHOC-2002), Canberra, July 2002.
  Slides 4up (ps.gz, 1.6 MB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 1.5 MB)

• Parallel Techniques for High-Performance Record Linkage (Data Matching)
  Peter Christen
  Seminar at the ANU Department of Computer Science, Canberra, June 2002.
  Slides 4up (ps.gz, 535 KB)   Slides 4up (pdf, 1.1 MB)

• Parallel Computing Techniques for High-Performance Probabilistic Record Linkage
  Peter Christen, Tim Churches, Markus Hegland, Kim Lim, Ole M. Nielsen and Stephen Roberts
  Presentation at the Symposium on Health Data Linkage, Syndey, March 2002.
  Slides (ps.gz, 1.5 MB)   Slides (pdf, 654 KB)

• Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Event Counters
  Peter Christen and Adam Czezowski
  Presentation at the CAP Workshop 2002, Fujitsu, Kawasaki, Japan, 6 February 2002.
  Slides (ps.gz, 57 KB)   Slides (pdf, 77 KB)

2001:

• High Performance Computing and Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the AEA Data Mining Workshop, Australasian Epidemiological Association, 10th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, 28 September, 2001.
  Slides (ps.gz, 963 KB   Slides (pdf, 947 KB)
  

• Data Mining at the Australian National University
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland, September 2001.

• DMtools - Open Source Software for Database Mining
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the Workshop on Database Support for KDD (at the PKDD'2001 Conference), Freiburg, Germany, September 2001.
  Slides (ps.gz, 283 KB)   Slides (pdf, 1.4 MB)

• High Performance Computing and Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  Presentation a the EPI-SIG Health Data Mining Seminar, Australian Museum, Sydney, 25 May, 2001.
  Slides (ps.gz, 1.0 MB)   Slides (pdf, 1.1 MB)
  

2000:

• Application of Parallel Computing in Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  Seminar at the Suranaree University of Technology, December 2000.

• Parallel Computing and Message Passing
  Peter Christen. Two-days course at the Suranaree University of Technology, October 2000.

• Data Mining at the ANU
  Peter Christen
  Presentation at the ADFA/ANU Machine Learning meeting, ANU, Canberra, September 2000.

• ACSys CRC - Data Mining Tools
  Peter Christen and Ole Nielsen
  Presentation and Demonstration for the ACSys CRC Data Mining research group, ANU, Canberra, August 2000.

• Parallel Algorithms in Data Mining - The ANU CSL Data Mining Approach
  Peter Christen
  Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, July 2000.

• Parallel Algorithms for Data Mining
  Peter Christen
  Seminar at the School for Information Studies, Charls Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, May 2000.
  Slides (pdf, 1.7 MB)  Slides (ps.gz, 1.5 MB)

1999:

• Parallelization of a Finite Element Surface Fitting Algorithm for Data Mining
  Peter Christen, Irfan Altas, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Kevin Burrage and Roger Sidje
  CTAC-99 Conference, Canberra, September 1999.
  Slides (ps.gz, 614 KB)

• A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with Dynamic Load Balancing
  Peter Christen
  CTAC-99 Conference, Canberra, September 1999.
  Slides (ps.gz, 218 KB)

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