Professor Weiss and 2 Former CS Undergrads Win Best Research Paper Award

The paper "Cost-Sensitive Learning vs. Sampling: Which is Best for Handling Class Imbalance" by Dr. G. M. Weiss, Kate McCarthy (FCRH '05), and Bibi Zabar (FCRH '05), received the best reserach paper award from the 2007 International Conference on Data Mining. The majority of the research was conducted as part of a course project in Dr. Weiss' data mining course in 2005. An earlier version of the paper appeared in the First International Workshop on Utility-Based Data Mining, which was held in 2005.