The discovery of characteristic rules is a well-known data mining task and has lead to several successful applications. However, because of the descriptive nature of characteristic...
Inductive databases (IDBs) have been proposed to afford the problem of knowledge discovery from huge databases. With an IDB the user/analyst performs a set of very different operat...
Subgroup discovery is a local pattern discovery task, in which descriptions of subpopulations of a database are evaluated against some quality function. As standard quality functio...
When automatically extracting information from the world wide web, most established methods focus on spotting single HTMLdocuments. However, the problem of spotting complete web s...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
Given an author-conference network that evolves over time, which are the conferences that a given author is most closely related with, and how do they change over time? Large time...
Hanghang Tong, Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu,...