Martine De Cock

About

Martine De Cock holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Ghent University (Belgium). She is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington Tacoma (USA), and a Guest Professor at Ghent University. Her previous work experiences include positions as a research assistant and a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, a visiting scholar in the BISC group at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), a visiting scholar at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University (USA), and an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University. She has over 180 peer reviewed publications in international journals and conferences on artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, web intelligence and logic programming. She is a program committee member of numerous international conferences and has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. She co-organized the KDDCup2013. Her current research interests are in trustworthy machine learning, in particular privacy-preserving machine learning.

Work

University of Washington Tacoma

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Publications

Developing an AI-Assisted Platform to Support Tuberculosis Care Delivery

book-chapter

A Decentralized Information Marketplace Preserving Input and Output Privacy

conference-paper

Secure Multi-Party Computation for Personalized Human Activity Recognition

Neural Processing Letters

journal-article

Privacy-Preserving Training of Tree ensembles over Continuous Data

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

journal-article

High performance logistic regression for privacy-preserving genome analysis

BMC Medical Genomics

journal-article

High performance logistic regression for privacy-preserving genome analysis

BMC Medical Genomics

journal-article

Cognitive load detection from wrist-band sensors

UbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

conference-paper

Inline Detection of DGA Domains Using Side Information

IEEE Access

journal-article

Fuzzy Answer Set Programming: From Theory to Practice

Studies in Computational Intelligence

book-chapter

Inline Detection of DGA Domains Using Side Information

IEEE Access

journal-article

Protecting Privacy of Users in Brain-Computer Interface Applications

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

journal-article

Cryptographically Secure Machine Learning

U.S. Patent

patent

Algorithmically generated domain detection and malware family classification

Communications in Computer and Information Science

book

CharBot: A Simple and Effective Method for Evading DGA Classifiers

IEEE Access

journal-article

Protecting Privacy of Users in Brain-Computer Interface Applications

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

journal-article

CharBot: A Simple and Effective Method for Evading DGA Classifiers

IEEE Access

journal-article

Efficient and Private Scoring of Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines and Logistic Regression Models Based on Pre-Computation

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

journal-article

Privacy-Preserving Scoring of Tree Ensembles: A Novel Framework for AI in Healthcare

Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018

conference-paper

Privacy-Preserving User Profiling with Facebook Likes

Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018

conference-paper

Privacy-preserving classification of personal text messages with secure multi-party computation: An application to hate-speech detection

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

conference-paper

Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for the Detection of Domain Generation Algorithms

IEEE Access

journal-article

Weakly supervised deep learning for the detection of domain generation algorithms

IEEE Access

journal-article

Character Level based Detection of DGA Domain Names

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

conference-paper

Detecting hate speech against women in English tweets

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Detecting misogynous tweets

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Modeling multi-valued biological interaction networks using fuzzy answer set programming

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Modelling incomplete information in Boolean games using possibilistic logic

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

User profiling through deep multimodal fusion

WSDM 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

conference-paper

Exact and heuristic methods for solving Boolean games

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

journal-article

Generating conflict-free treatments for patients with comorbidity using answer set programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Inline DGA detection with deep networks

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW

conference-paper

Repairing inconsistent answer set programs using rules of thumb: A gene regulatory networks case study

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

Soft quantification in statistical relational learning

Machine Learning

journal-article

Computational personality recognition in social media

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

journal-article

Computing attractors of multi-valued gene regulatory networks using fuzzy answer set programming

2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016

conference-paper

Formalizing commitment-based deals in boolean games

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

book

Predicting future frequent users of emergency departments in California state

ACM-BCB 2016 - 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

conference-paper

Risk stratification for hospital readmission of heart failure patients: A machine learning approach

ACM-BCB 2016 - 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

conference-paper

Sequence based prediction of hospital readmissions

ACM-BCB 2016 - 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

conference-paper

Solving stable matching problems using answer set programming

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

journal-article

Statistical relational learning with soft quantifiers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

VirtualIdentity: Privacy preserving user profiling

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016

conference-paper

Characterizing and extending answer set semantics using possibility theory

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

journal-article

Computing fuzzy rough approximations in large scale information systems

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014

conference-paper

Distributed fuzzy rough prototype selection for Big Data regression

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

conference-paper

Fast, privacy preserving linear regression over distributed datasets based on pre-distributed data

AISec 2015 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, co-located with CCS 2015

conference-paper

Fuzzy Rough Set Prototype Selection for Regression

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

conference-paper

Multilateral negotiation in boolean games with incomplete information using generalized possibilistic logic

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

conference-paper

On the relationship between fuzzy autoepistemic logic and fuzzy modal logics of belief

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Population cost prediction on public healthcare datasets

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

conference-paper

Scalable adaptive label propagation in Grappa

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2015

conference-paper

Solving disjunctive fuzzy answer set programs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Using rules of thumb for repairing inconsistent answer set programs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

A finite-valued solver for disjunctive fuzzy answer set programs

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

book

A multivariate regression approach to personality impression recognition of vloggers

WCPR 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition, Workshop of MM 2014

conference-paper

ASP-G: An ASP-based method for finding attractors in genetic regulatory networks

Bioinformatics

journal-article

Age and gender identification in social media

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Complexity of fuzzy answer set programming under Łukasiewicz semantics

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

Decentralized computation of pareto optimal pure nash equilibria of Boolean games with privacy concerns

ICAART 2014 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

conference-paper

Extending PSL with fuzzy quantifiers

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

conference-paper

Fuzzy autoepistemic logic and its relation to fuzzy answer set programming

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

How are you doing? Emotions and personality in Facebook

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Possibilistic boolean games: Strategic reasoning under incomplete information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Repairing inconsistent taxonomies using MAP inference and rules of thumb

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

conference-paper

Semantics for possibilistic answer set programs: Uncertain rules versus rules with uncertain conclusions

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

Using answer set programming for solving Boolean games

Proc. Int. Workshop Tempor. Represent. Reason.

conference-paper

Using the crowd for readability prediction

Natural Language Engineering

journal-article

Enhancing the trust-based recommendation process with explicit distrust

ACM Transactions on the Web

journal-article

Expressiveness of communication in answer set programming

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

journal-article

Five languages are better than one: An attempt to bypass the data acquisition bottleneck for WSD

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy answer set programming: An introduction

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

book

Local search and restart strategies for satisfiability solving in fuzzy logics

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, GEFS 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013

conference-paper

Modeling stable matching problems with answer set programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Recognising personality traits using facebook status updates

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

conference-paper

Solving satisfiability in fuzzy logics by mixing CMA-ES

Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference

conference-paper

Solving satisfiability in fuzzy logics by mixing CMA-ES

GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

conference-paper

The Microsoft Academic Search challenges at KDD Cup 2013

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2013

conference-paper

The Microsoft Academic Search dataset and KDD Cup 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 KDD Cup 2013 Workshop

conference-paper

Towards a deeper understanding of nonmonotonic reasoning with degrees

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

conference-paper

Discovering missing wikipedia inter-language links by means of cross-lingual word sense disambiguation

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

conference-paper

Possible and necessary answer sets of possibilistic answer set programs

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

conference-paper

SBFC: An efficient feature frequency-based approach to tackle cross-lingual word sense disambiguation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Solving satisfiability in fuzzy logics with evolution strategies

Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference

conference-paper

Solving satisfiability in fuzzy logics with evolution strategies

2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, NAFIPS 2012

conference-paper

Practical aggregation operators for gradual trust and distrust

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Aggregated Fuzzy Answer Set Programming

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

journal-article

Communicating ASP and the polynomial hierarchy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy autoepistemic logic: Reflecting about knowledge of truth degrees

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Modelling gene and protein regulatory networks with answer set programming

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

journal-article

Weak and strong disjunction in possibilistic ASP

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Reasoning about fuzzy temporal information from the web: Towards retrieval of historical events

Soft Computing

journal-article

Clustering web people search results using fuzzy ants

Information Sciences

journal-article

Communicating answer set programs

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs

conference-paper

Efficient solving of time-dependent answer set programs

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs

conference-paper

Bilattice-based aggregation operators for gradual trust and distrust

Computational Intelligence Foundations and Applications - Proceedings of the 9th International FLINS Conference, FLINS 2010

conference-paper

Born to trade: A genetically evolved keyword bidder for sponsored search

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010

conference-paper

Extending boolean regulatory network models with answer set programming

2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2010

conference-paper

Fuzzy methods on the web: A critical discussion

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

book

Possibilistic answer set programming revisited

Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2010

conference-paper

Ranking approaches for microblog search

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2010

conference-paper

Gradual trust and distrust in recommender systems

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

An evolved fuzzy logic system for fire size prediction

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

conference-paper

Answer sets in a fuzzy equilibrium logic

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Efficient algorithms for fuzzy qualitative temporal reasoning

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

journal-article

Finite satisfiability in infinite-valued łukasiewicz logic

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy answer set programming with literal preferences

2009 International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress and 2009 European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology Conference, IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 - Proceedings

conference-paper

General fuzzy answer set programs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Linguistic feature analysis for protein interaction extraction

BMC Bioinformatics

journal-article

Modeling protein interaction networks with answer set programming

2009 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2009

conference-paper

Spatial reasoning in a fuzzy region connection calculus

Artificial Intelligence

journal-article

Whom should i trust? The impact of key figures on cold start recommendations

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

conference-paper

Acquiring vague temporal information from the web

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2008

conference-paper

Compiling fuzzy answer set programs to fuzzy propositional theories

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

DEEPER: A full parsing based approach to protein relation extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzifying Allen's temporal interval relations

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

journal-article

Fuzzy Rough Sets: From Theory into Practice

Handbook of Granular Computing

book-chapter

Fuzzy region connection calculus: An interpretation based on closeness

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

Fuzzy region connection calculus: Representing vague topological information

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

journal-article

Getting cold start users connected in a recommender system's trust network

World Scientific Proceedings Series on Computer Engineering and Information Science 1; Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control - Proceedings of the 8th International FLINS Conference

conference-paper

Key figure impact in trust-enhanced recommender systems

AI Communications

journal-article

Location approximation for local search services using natural language hints

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

journal-article

Temporal reasoning about fuzzy intervals

Artificial Intelligence

journal-article

Modelling nearness and cardinal directions between fuzzy regions

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

conference-paper

The role of syntactic features in protein interaction extraction

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

conference-paper

Neighborhood restrictions in geographic IR

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

conference-paper

An introduction to fuzzy answer set programming

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

journal-article

Clustering Web search results using fuzzy ants

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

journal-article

Computing fuzzy answer sets using DLVHEX

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy rough sets: The forgotten step

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

journal-article

Qualitative temporal reasoning about vague events

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

conference-paper

Reasoning about vague topological information

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

conference-paper

Selection of Web services with imprecise QoS constraints

Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007

conference-paper

Vaguely quantified rough sets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

A many valued representation and propagation of trust and distrust

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

An efficient characterization of fuzzy temporal interval relations

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

conference-paper

Enhanced recommendations through propagation of trust and distrust

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2006 Workshops Proceedings)

conference-paper

Fuzzy answer set programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy spatial relations between vague regions

IEEE Intelligent Systems

journal-article

Fuzzy versus quantitative association rules: A fair data-driven comparison

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

journal-article

Imprecise temporal interval relations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Question answering with imperfect temporal information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Reflections on modelling vagueness in description logics

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Towards a provenancepreserving trust model in agent networks

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

conference-paper

Automatic acquisition of fuzzy footprints

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Elicitation of fuzzy association rules from positive and negative examples

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Fuzzy constraint based answer validation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Relatedness of fuzzy sets

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

journal-article

Special issue dedicated to the 60th birthday of Etienne E. Kerre

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

journal-article

Efficient approximate reasoning with positive and negative information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Efficient clustering with fuzzy ants

Applied Computational Intelligence - Proceedings of the 6th International FLINS Conference

conference-paper

Fuzzy ant based clustering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Fuzzy modifiers based on fuzzy relations

Information Sciences

journal-article

Fuzzy rough sets: Beyond the obvious

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

conference-paper

Mining positive and negative fuzzy association rules

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets: At the crossroads of imperfect knowledge

Expert Systems

journal-article

On (un)suitable fuzzy relations to model approximate equality

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Openings and closures of fuzzy preorderings: Theoretical basics and applications to fuzzy rule-based systems

International Journal of General Systems

journal-article

Why fuzzy script J sign -equivalence relations do not resolve the Poincaré paradox, and related issues

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

journal-article

Fuzzy relational images in computer science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Intuitionistic fuzzy relational calculus: An overview

2002 1st International IEEE Symposium

conference-paper

On the meaning of noise annoyance modifiers: A fuzzy set theoretical approach

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

journal-article

Fuzzy topologies induced by fuzzy relation based modifiers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

book

Soft computing techniques for speech recognition

Proceedings of the Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technolgoy, CBGIST 2001

conference-paper

The representation of linguistic hedges using fuzzy relational calculus

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

conference-paper

New class of fuzzy modifiers

Proceedings of The International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic

conference-paper

A neural network based on linguistic modifiers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

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