Client/server information systems use caching techniques to reduce the volume of transmitted data as well as response time and, especially in the case of systems with mobile clien...
Data mining is increasingly performed by people who are not computer scientists or professional programmers. It is often done as an iterative process involving multiple ad-hoc tas...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...
The discovery of emerging patterns (EPs) is a descriptive data mining task defined for pre-classified data. It aims at detecting patterns which contrast two classes and has been ...
Annalisa Appice, Michelangelo Ceci, Carlo Malgieri...