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Sebastián Maldonado

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Publications in Magazines with Editorial Committee
● 2025 (Forthcoming) / A predict-and-optimize approach to profit-driven churn prevention / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH -
● 2025 / Enhancing environmental governance: A text-based artificial intelligence approach for project evaluation involvement / Environmental Impact Assessment Review - Vol. 110, No. 107.707
● 2024 / Dealing with Class Imbalance in Uplift Modeling - Efficient Data Preprocessing via Oversampling and Matching / IEEE Access - Vol. 12
● 2024 / Interpretable multimodal classification for age-related macular degeneration diagnosis / PLoS One - Vol. 19, No. 11
● 2024 / Designing employee benefits to optimize turnover: A prescriptive analytics approach / COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - Vol. 197, No. 110.582
● 2024 / Improving incentive policies to salespeople cross-sells: a cost-sensitive uplift modeling approach / Neural Computing & Applications - Vol. 36
● 2024 / Explainable AI for enhanced decision-making / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 184, No. 114.276
● 2024 / Propensity score oversampling and matching for uplift modeling / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 316, No. 3
● 2024 (Forthcoming) / Efficient hybrid oversampling and intelligent undersampling for imbalanced big data classification / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 246
● 2024 / Analytics-driven complaint prioritisation via deep learning and multicriteria decision-making / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 312, No. 3
● 2023 / Combination of unsupervised discretization methods for credit risk / PLoS One - Vol. 18, No. 11
● 2023 / Combination of infrared reflectance and OCT imaging for age-related macular degeneration screening via deep learning / INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE - Vol. 64, No. 8
● 2023 / Explainable AI for Operational Research: A defining framework, methods, applications, and a research agenda / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 317, No. 2
● 2023 / OWAdapt: An adaptive loss function for deep learning using OWA operators / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 280
● 2023 / Semi-supervised learning for MALDI–TOF mass spectrometry data classification: an application in the salmon industry / Neural Computing & Applications - Vol. 35, No. 13
● 2023 / Case—School Timetabling Problem: A Scheduling Problem for High-School Institutions / INFORMS Transactions on Education - Vol. 24, No. 1
● 2023 / Mitigating the effect of dataset shift in clustering / Pattern Recongnition - Vol. 134
● 2023 / Pooling information across levels in hierarchical time series forecasting via Kernel methods / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 213
● 2023 / Preference estimation under bounded rationality: Identification of attribute non-attendance in stated-choice data using a support vector machines approach / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 304, No. 2
● 2022 / Understanding customer satisfaction via deep learning and natural language processing / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 209
● 2022 / The Cobb-Douglas Learning Machine / Pattern Recongnition - Vol. 128
● 2022 / Improving debt collection via contact center information: A predictive analytics framework / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 159
● 2022 / FW-SMOTE: A feature-weighted oversampling approach for imbalanced classification / Pattern Recongnition - Vol. 124
● 2022 / Out-of-time cross-validation strategies for classification in the presence of dataset shift / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 52, No. 5
● 2021 / Redefining profit metrics for boosting student retention in higher education / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 143
● 2021 / Prescriptive analytics: La última frontera de las capacidades analíticas / Revista Contabilidad y Sistemas, Universidad de Chile - Vol. 20
● 2021 / Simultaneous model construction and noise reduction for hierarchical time series via Support Vector Regression / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 232
● 2021 / Efficient n-gram construction for text categorization using feature selection techniques / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 25, No. 3
● 2021 / Telecom traffic pumping analytics via explainable data science / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 150
● 2021 / A Transparency Maturity Model for Government Software Tenders / IEEE Access - Vol. 9
● 2021 / Time-weighted Fuzzy Support Vector Machines for classification in changing environments / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 559
● 2021 / Profit-driven churn prediction for the mutual fund industry: A multisegment approach / OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE - Vol. 100
● 2021 / A discrete choice modeling approach to measure susceptibility and subjective valuation of the decoy effect, with an application to route choice / Journal of Choice Modelling - Vol. 38
● 2021 / Automatic feature scaling and selection for support vector machine classification with functional data / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 51, No. 1
● 2020 / IOWA-SVM: A density-based weighting strategy for SVM classification via OWA operators / IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS - Vol. 28, No. 9
● 2020 / Uplift Modeling for preventing student dropout in higher education / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 134
● 2020 / SVR-FFS: A novel forward feature selection approach for high-frequency time series forecasting using support vector regression / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 160
● 2020 / Mining sequences in activities for time use analysis / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 24, No. 2
● 2020 / Profit-based Churn Prediction based on Minimax Probability Machines / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 284, No. 1
● 2020 / Reconfiguration and reinforcement allocation as applied to hourly medium-term load forecasting of distribution feeders / IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution - Vol. 14, No. 9
● 2020 / Simultaneous feature selection and heterogeneity control for SVM classification: An application to mental workload assessment / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 143
● 2020 / Enhancing the classification of Social Media Opinions by Optimizing the Structural Information / Future Generation Computer Systems - Vol. 102
● 2020 / Credit Scoring using Three-Way Decisions with Probabilistic Rough Sets / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 507
● 2019 / Facilitating conditions for successful adoption of inter-organizational information systems in seaports / Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice - Vol. 130
● 2019 / Epsilon-nonparallel support vector regression / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 49, No. 12
● 2019 / Robust Nonparallel Support Vector Machines via Second Order Cone Programming / Neurocomputing - Vol. 364
● 2019 / Automatic Time Series Analysis for Electric Load Forecasting via Support Vector Regression / APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING - Vol. 83, No. 105.616
● 2019 / Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting via Support Vector Regression in the European Travel Retail Industry / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 137
● 2019 / Profit-based Credit Scoring based on Robust Optimization and Feature Selection / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 500
● 2019 / Analytics meets port logistics: A decision support system for container stacking operations / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 121
● 2019 / Regularized Minimax Probability Machine / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 177
● 2019 / An alternative SMOTE oversampling strategy for high-dimensional datasets / APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING - Vol. 76
● 2018 / Redefining support vector machines with the ordered weighted average / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 148
● 2018 / Decision support for fleet allocation and contract renegotiation in contracted open-pit mine blasting operations / International Journal of Production Economics - Vol. 204
● 2018 / Ellipsoidal Support Vector Regression based on Second-order Cone Programming / Neurocomputing - Vol. 305
● 2018 / Robust twin support vector regression via second ordercone programming / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 152
● 2018 / Redefining nearest neighbor classification in high dimensionalsettings / Pattern Recongnition Letters - Vol. 110
● 2018 / Dealing with high-dimensional class-imbalanced datasets: Embedded feature selection for SVM classification / APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING - Vol. 67
● 2018 / Double regularization methods for robust feature selection and SVM classification via DC programming / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 429
● 2018 / Understanding time use via data mining: A clustering-based framework / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 22, No. 3
● 2018 / Mining EEG with SVM for Understanding Cognitive Underpinnings of Math Problem Solving Strategies / Behavioural Neurology - Vol. 2.018, No. 4.638.903
● 2017 / Dynamic Rough-Fuzzy Support Vector Clustering / IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS - Vol. 25, No. 6
● 2017 / Integrated framework for profit-based feature selection and SVM classification in credit scoring / DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - Vol. 104
● 2017 / Synchronized feature selection for Support Vector Machines with twin hyperplanes / KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Vol. 132
● 2017 / A robust formulation for twin multiclass support vector machine / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 47, No. 4
● 2017 / Cost-based feature selection for Support Vector Machines - An application in credit scoring / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 261, No. 2
● 2017 / Robust Kernel-based Multiclass Support Vector Machines via Second-Order Cone Programming / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 46, No. 4
● 2017 / Group-Penalized Feature Selection and Robust Twin SVM Classification via Second-order Cone Programming / Neurocomputing - Vol. 235
● 2017 / Embedded Heterogeneous Feature Selection for Conjoint Analysis: a SVM approach using L1 penalty / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 46, No. 4
● 2017 / Assessing university enrollment and admission efforts via hierarchical classification and feature selection / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 21, No. 4
● 2017 / Simultaneous Preference Estimation and Heterogeneity Control for Choice-based Conjoint via Support Vector Machines / Journal of the Operational Research Society - Vol. 68, No. 11
● 2016 / A fleet management model for the Santiago Fire Department / Fire Safety Journal - Vol. 82
● 2016 / A second-order cone programming formulation for nonparallel hyperplane support vector machine / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 54
● 2016 / A second-order cone programming formulation for twin support vector machines / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 45, No. 2
● 2016 / Multi-class Second-Order Cone Programming Support Vector Machines / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 330
● 2016 / A Novel Multi-class SVM Model Using Second-Order Cone Constraints / Applied Intelligence - Vol. 44, No. 2
● 2016 / A Reconfiguration of Fire Station and Fleet Locations for the Santiago Fire Department / INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH - Vol. 54, No. 11
● 2015 / An Embedded Feature Selection Approach for Support Vector Classification via Second-order Cone Programming / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 19, No. 6
● 2015 / Feature Selection for Multiclass Support Vector Machines Using Second-Order Cone Programming / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 19
● 2015 / Churn Prediction via Support Vector Classification: An empirical comparison / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 19
● 2015 / Profit-based feature selection using support vector machines - General framework and an application for customer retention / APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING - Vol. 35
● 2015 / Fieller's Stability Measure: A Novel Model dependentBacktesting Approach / Journal of the Operational Research Society - Vol. 66, No. 11
● 2015 / Kernel Penalized K-means: A feature selection method based on Kernel K-means / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 322, No. 11.602
● 2015 / How Do Surficial Lithic Assemblages Weather in Arid Environments? A Case Study from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile / Geoarchaeology - Vol. 30, No. 4
● 2015 / Identifying next relevant variables for segmentation by using feature selection approaches / EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS - Vol. 42, No. 15
● 2015 / A multi-class SVM approach based on the l1-norm minimization of the distances between the reduced convex hulls / Pattern Recongnition - Vol. 48, No. 5
● 2015 / Advanced Conjoint Analysis using Feature Selection via Support Vector Machines / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 241, No. 2
● 2015 / Selección de atributos y Support Vector Machines adaptado al problema de fuga de clientes / Revista Ingeniería de Sistemas - Vol. 29
● 2014 / Feature selection for high-dimensional class-imbalanced data sets using Support Vector Machines / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 286
● 2014 / Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines via Mixed Integer Linear Programming / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 279
● 2014 / Alternative Second-Order Cone Programming Formulations for Support Vector Classification / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 268
● 2014 / Imbalanced data classification using second-order cone programming Support Vector Machines / Pattern Recongnition - Vol. 47, No. 5
● 2014 / Robust Classification of Imbalanced Data using Ensembles of One-Class and Two-Class SVMs / Intelligent Data Analysis - Vol. 18, No. 1
● 2013 / Methodologies for Granting and Managing Loans for Micro-Entrepreneurs: New Developments and Practical Experiences / EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH - Vol. 227, No. 2
● 2012 / Modelos de selección de atributos para Support Vector Machines / Revista Ingeniería de Sistemas - Vol. 26
● 2011 / Simultaneous feature selection and classification using kernel-penalized support vector machines / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 181, No. 1
● 2009 / A wrapper method for feature selection using Support Vector Machines / INFORMATION SCIENCES - Vol. 179, No. 13
● 2009 / Seguimiento en modelos de regresión logística / Revista Ingeniería Industrial - Vol. 8, No. 2
Books
● 2022 / Analytics y Big Data: Ciencia de los Datos aplicada al mundo de los negocios
Book Chapters
● 2013 / SVM-based Feature Selection and Classification for Email Filtering.
● 2011 / Embedded Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges
● 2010 / A Semi-supervised Approach for Reject Inference in Credit Scoring Using SVMs
Academic/Professional meeting Proceedings
● 2021 / Semi-supervised learning for MS MALDI-TOF data
Columna de Opinión
● 2024 / La regulación de lainteligencia artificial / No. 24
● 2023 / La regulación de la IA
● 2023 / Regulación de la inteligencia artificial, ¿cuándo, cómo y por qué?
Competitive Research Awards Received
● 2023 / Study of novel robust optimization models in classification problems / No. 1.230.694
● 2023 / Escalamiento y validación de un sistema integrado para la persecución de delitos utilizando analítica avanzada de datos
● 2022 / Understanding business dynamics through analytics: Theory and applications in churn prevention and credit assignment
● 2021 / A Decision Support System for container handling port operations based on artificial intelligence and optimization techniques (DSS-AIOP)
● 2020 / Improving out-of-time predictive performance in business analytics via robust optimization and profit metrics
Others
● 2019 / Measuring Prevalence and Incidence of the Decoy Effect: An Application to Route Choice