Opening Session : Alternatives  to ROC Curve



09:00   
Introduction


09:10
Invited Talk
Cost Curves
     Rob Holte


10:10
The Expected Performance Curve.
     Samy Bengio, Johnny Mariéthoz, and Mikaela Keller.


10:30
COFFE BREAK


11:00
Boosting for Regression Using Regression Error Characteristic Curves.
     Aloìsio Carlos de Pina and Gerson Zaverucha.


11:20
Modifying ROC Curves to Incorporate Predicted Probabilities.
     Cèsar Ferri, Peter Flach, José Hernández-Orallo, and Athmane Senad.


11:40
A scored AUC Metric  for Classifier Evaluation and Selection
     Shaomin Wu and Peter Flach.



     AUC Based Learning



12:00
Bagging Evolutionary ROC-based Hypotheses Application to Terminology
Extraction.
     Jérôme Azé, Mathieu Roche, and Michèle Sebag.


12:20
Optimal Linear Combination of Dichotomizers via AUC.
     Claudio Marrocco, Mario Molinara and Francesco Tortorella.


12:40
  LUNCH BREAK



14:30
AUC Maximizing Support Vector Learning.
     Ulf Brefeld and Tobias Scheffer.



          Statistical Analysis of ROC




14:45
A data-dependent generalisation error bound for the AUC.
     Nicolas Usunier, Massih-Reza Amini, and Patrick Gallinari.


15:05
Pointwise ROC Confidence Bounds: An Empirical Evaluation & ROC Confidence Bands:
An Empirical Evaluation.
    Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster Provost and Saharon Rosset


15:40
 BREAK


         MultiClass ROC Analysis




16:10
Improving Classification Performance by Exploring the Role of Cost Matrices in
Partioning the Estimated Class Probability Space.
    Deirdre B. O'Brien and Robert M. Gray.


16:30
Formulation and comparison of multi-class ROC surfaces.
Visualisation of multi-class ROC surfaces.
     Jonathan E. Fieldsend and Richard M. Everson.


17:05
 Round Table + Wrap-up discussions


17:40
   End