The primary aim of most data mining algorithms is to facilitate the discovery of concise and interpretable information from large amounts of data. However, many of the current for...
In this chapter we consider a cell phone network as a set of automatically deployed sensors that records movement and interaction patterns of the population. We discuss methods fo...
— Most of existing privacy preserving techniques, such as k-anonymity methods, are designed for static data sets. As such, they cannot be applied to streaming data which are cont...
Jianneng Cao, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Ki...
Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...