Nowadays the software systems, including web portals, are developed from a priori assumptions about how the system will be used. However, frequently these assumptions hold only par...
We demonstrate a system to automatically grab data from data intensive web sites. The system first infers a model that describes at the intensional level the web site as a collec...
Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Meria...
In this paper, we describe the threats to privacy that can occur through data mining and then view the privacy problem as a variation of the inference problem in databases. Keywor...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) provides tools to explore and navigate into data cubes in order to extract interesting information. Nevertheless, OLAP is not capable of expla...
—This paper describes a new method to explore and discover within a large data set. We apply techniques from preference elicitation to automatically identify data elements that a...