Yong Seog Kim

Professor

Department(s):
  • Data Analytics and Information Systems
Yong Seog Kim

Contact Information

  Eccles Business Building 710
  435.797.2271
  yong.kim@usu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph. D., MIS, University of Iowa
MA, Computer Science, University of Iowa
MA, Economics, Yonsei University
BA, Economics, Yonsei University

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Mentor of the Year - 2021

Biography

Dr. Yong Seog Kim is a professor in the Data Analytics & Information Systems Department at Utah State University. His primary research interests are decision support systems (DSS) and the development of data mining algorithms for feature selection, clustering, ensemble methods, and streaming data analysis. He is also interested in applying data mining algorithms to real-world problems including customer relationship management (CRM), e-commerce, and computational finance and economics.

Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Nguyen, H., Kim, Y., (2025). Beef Quality Classification and Logistics Patterns over Local, Regional, and National Supply Chains in South Korea. Applied Science and Engineering Journal for Advanced Research, 4:1, 30-40.
  • Cherrington, E., Kim, Y., (2024). Are Analytics Skills in Curriculum Aligned with Skills in Job Description? A Knowledge Graph Approach. Internal Journal of Engineering and Management Research, 14:6, 77-83.
  • Stuart, D., Sharifi, M.S, Christensen, K., Chen, A., Kim, Y., Chen, Y., (2019). Crowds involving Individuals with Disabilities: Modeling Heterogeneity using Fractional Order Potential Fields and the Social Force Model. Physica A, 514:2019, 244-258.
  • Sharifi, M.S, Christensen, K., Chen, A., Stuart, D., Kim, Y., Chen, Y., (2017). A large-scale controlled experiment pedestrian walking behavior involving individuals with disabilities. Travel Behavior and Society, 8, 14-25.
  • Manley, M., Kim, Y., Christensen, K., Chen, A., (2016). Airport Emergency Evacuation Planning: An Agent-based Simulation Study of Dirty Bomb Scenarios. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 46:10, 1390-1403.
  • Sharifi, M.S, Stuart, D., Christensen, K., Chen, A., Kim, Y., Chen, Y., (2015). Analysis of walking speeds involving individuals with disabilities in different indoor walking environments. Journal of Urban Planning and Development
  • Lee, J., Cho, H., Kim, Y., (2015). Estimating the effects of agility criterion and order allocation strategy in multi-criteria supplier selection. Expert Systems with Applications, 42:3, 1136-1148.
  • Moon, S., Park, Y., Kim, Y., (2014). The impact of text product reviews on sales. European Journal of Marketing, 48:11/12, 2176-2197.
  • Lee, S., Kim, Y., Suh, E., (2014). Structural health assessment of Communities of Practice (CoPs). Journal of Knowledge Management, 18:6, 1198-1216.
  • Koo, J., Kim, B., Kim, Y., (2014). Estimating the effects of mental disorientation and physical fatigue in a semi-panic evacuation. Expert Systems with Applications, 41:5, 2379–2390.
  • Kwag, S., Kim, Y., (2013). Stock price predictability of financial ratios and macroeconomic variables: A regulatory perspective. Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, 12:4, 406-415.
  • Ryu, S., Chen, A., Kim, Y., (2013). Investigating travel time reliability measures in toll design problem. Asian Transport Studies, 2:3, 253-268.
  • Kim, Y., Tran, V., Johnson, J., (2013). Assesing the ripple effects of viral marketing among users on the social network with trust and distrust metrics. Expert Systems with Applications, 40:9, 3500-3511.
  • Kim, Y., Lee, H., Johnson, J., (2013). Churn management optimization via sequential quadratic programming with controllable marketing variables and associated management costs. Expert Systems with Applications, 40:6, 2198-2207.
  • Kim, Y., Kwag, S., (2013). Identifying green IT leaders quantitatively and qualitatively. Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, 12:2, 118-129.
  • Koo, J., Kim, Y., Kim, B., Christensen, K., (2013). A comparative study of evacuation strategies for people with disabilities in high-rise building evacuation. Expert Systems with Applications, 40:2, 408-417.
  • Kim, Y., (2012). Toward successful management of vocational rehabilitation services program for people with disabilities: A data mining approach. Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, 11:4, 371–384.
  • Kim, Y., Moon, S., (2012). Measuring the success of churn management models built on churn probability, retention probability, and expected yearly revenues. Expert Systems with Applications, 39:14, 11718–11727.
  • Kim, N., Jung, K., Lee, J., Kim, Y., (2012). Uniformly subsampled ensemble (USE) for churn management: Theory and implementation. Expert Systems with Applications, 39:15, 11839–11845.
  • Manley, M., Kim, Y., (2012). Exitus: Agent-based evacuation simulation for individuals with disabilities in a large sport arena. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 8:2, 1-13.
  • Manley, M., Kim, Y., (2012). Modeling emergency evacuation of individuals with disabilities (exitus): An agent-based public decision support system. Expert Systems with Applications, 39:9, 8300-8311.
  • Koo, J., Kim, Y., Kim, B., (2012). Estimating the impact of residents with disabilities on the evacuation in a high-rise building: A simulation study. Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory Journal, 24, 71-83.
  • Lee, H., Kim, Y., Lee, Y., Cho, H., Im, K., (2011). Mining churning behaviors and developing retention strategies based on a partial least square (PLS) model. Decision Support Systems, 52:1, 207-216.
  • Ji, Z., Kim, Y., Chen, A., (2011). Multi-objective α-reliable path finding in stochastic networks with correlated link costs: A simulation-based multi-objective genetic algorithm approach (SMOGA). Expert Systems with Application, 38:3, 1515–1528.
  • Kim, Y., (2011). Multi-objective clustering with data- and human-driven metrics. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 51:4, 64-73.
  • Manley, M., Kim, Y., Christensen, K., Chen, A., (2011). Modeling emergency evacuation of individuals with disabilities in a densely populated airport. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2206:1, 32-38.
  • Montero, J.D, Kim, Y., Johnson, J., (2010). A Rapid Mapping Conversion Methodology to a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf System. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 50:4, 57-66.
  • Kim, Y., (2009). Streaming association rule mining with a weighted order-dependent representation of Web navigation patterns. Expert Systems with Application, 36:4, 7933-7946.
  • Kim, Y., (2009). Boosting and measuring the performance of ensembles for successful database marketing. Expert Systems with Application, 36:2, 2161-2176.
  • Kim, Y., (2007). Maximizing sellers' welfare in online auction by simulating bidders' proxy bidding agents. Expert Systems with Application, 32:2, 289–298.
  • Kim, Y., (2007). Weighted order-dependent clustering and visualization of Web navigation patterns. Decision Support Systems, 43:4, 1630-1645.
  • Kim, Y., Street, N., Menczer, F., (2006). Optimal ensemble construction via meta-evolutionary ensembles. Expert Systems with Application, 30:4, 705-714.
  • Kim, Y., (2006). Toward a successful CRM: Variable selection, sampling, and ensemble. Decision Support Systems, 41:2, 542-553.
  • Kim, Y., Street, N., Russell, G., Menczer, F., (2005). Customer targeting: A neural network approach guided by genetic algorithms. Management Science, 51:2, 264-276.
  • Kim, Y., (2005). Information fusion via a hierarchical neural network model. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 45:4, 1-13.
  • Kim, Y., (2005). The effects of buyer and product traits with seller reputation on price premiums in e-Auction. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 46:1, 79-91.
  • Kim, Y., Street, N., (2004). An intelligent recommendation system for customer targeting: A data mining approach. Decision Support Systems, 37:2, 215-228.
  • Pratt, J., Mills, R., Kim, Y., (2004). The effects of navigational orientation on user task efficiency and frustration levels. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 44:4, 93-100.
  • Kim, Y., Street, W., Menczer, F., (2002). Evolutionary model selection in unsupervised learning. Intelligent Data Analysis , 6:6, 531-556.

Book Chapters

    Publications | Abstracts

      Technical Reports

      Other Reports

        An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

        Teaching

        DATA 5480 - Data Mining, Spring 2024
        DATA 6480, 5480 - Data Mining, Fall 2023
        DATA 6400, 5400 - Visual Data Analytics, Fall 2023
        DATA 5480, 6480 - Data Mining, Spring 2023
        DATA 5400, 6400 - Visual Data Analytics, Spring 2023
        DATA 6480, 5480 - Data Mining, Fall 2022
        DATA 6400, 5400 - Visual Data Analytics, Fall 2022
        DATA 6500 - Data Mining, Spring 2022
        DATA 5400 - Visual Data Analytics, Spring 2022
        DATA 5400 - Visual Data Analytics, Fall 2021
        IS 6110 - Workshop, Fall 2021
        MIS 6500 - Data Mining, Spring 2021
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Fall 2020
        MIS 6500 - Data Mining, Spring 2020
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Spring 2020
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2019
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Fall 2019
        MIS 6500 - Data Mining, Spring 2019
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Spring 2019
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2018
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Fall 2018
        MIS 6500 - Data Mining, Spring 2018
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Spring 2018
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2017
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Fall 2017
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2016
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2016
        MIS 6900 - IS Development, Spring 2016
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Spring 2016
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2015
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2015
        MIS 6900 - IS Development, Spring 2015
        MIS 5900 - Systems Design and Implementation, Spring 2015
        MIS 5910 - Systems Design Laboratory, Spring 2015
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Spring 2015
        MIS 5900 - Systems Design and Implementation, Fall 2014
        MIS 5910 - Systems Design Laboratory, Fall 2014
        MIS 6900 - IS Development, Spring 2014
        MIS 6110 - Workshop, Spring 2014
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2013
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2013
        MIS 6120 - Business Information Systems Development, Spring 2013
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Spring 2013
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2012
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2012
        MIS 6120 - Business Information Systems Development, Spring 2012
        MIS 6330 - Database Implementation, Spring 2012
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2011
        MIS 2100 - Principles of Management Information Systems, Fall 2011
        MIS 6330 - DATABASE IMPLEMENT, Spring 2011
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Spring 2011
        MIS 6200 - BUS DATA COMM SYSTEM, Fall 2010
        MIS 2100 - PRINCIPLES OF MIS, Fall 2010
        MIS 6120 - , Spring 2009
        MIS 5300 - ADVANCED DATA COMM, Spring 2009
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Spring 2009
        MIS 5300 - ADVANCED DATA COMM, Fall 2008
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2008
        MIS 5300 - ADVANCED DATA COMM, Spring 2008
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Spring 2008
        MIS 5300 - Advanced Data Communication, Fall 2007
        MIS 6700 - IS strategy for E-commerce, Fall 2007
        MIS 5300 - ADVANCED DATA COMM, Spring 2007
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Spring 2007
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Fall 2006
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2006
        MIS 5650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2006
        MIS 6120 - INFO SYSTEMS DEV, Spring 2006
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2005
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2005
        MIS 5650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2005
        MIS 6650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2005
        MIS 3330 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT, Spring 2005
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2004
        MIS 2450 - SPREADSHEETS/DATABASE, Fall 2004
        MIS 5650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2004
        MIS 6650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2004
        MIS 3330 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT, Spring 2004
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2003
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2003
        MIS 5650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2003
        MIS 6650 - ADV WEB DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2003
        MIS 2450 - SPREADSHEETS/DATABASE, Spring 2003
        MIS 2450 - SPREADSHEETS/DATABASE, Spring 2003
        MIS 6700 - IS STRAT/E-COMMERCE, Fall 2002
        MIS 2450 - SPREADSHEETS/DATABASE, Fall 2002