With the rapid growth of the Internet, users' ability to publish content has created active electronic communities that provide a wealth of product information. Consumers nat...
In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
This paper is concerned with the problem of mining competitors from the Web automatically. Nowadays, the fierce competition in the market necessitates every company to know not onl...
Automatic Decision Support Systems (DSS) are widely adopted for screening purposes in socially sensitive tasks, including access to credit, mortgage, insurance, labor market and o...
Data availability, collection and storage have increased dramatically in recent years, raising new technological and algorithmic challenges for database design and data management...