—Linguistic summarization (LS) is a data mining or knowledge discovery approach to extract patterns from databases. Many authors have used this technique to generate summaries li...
An important problem in the area of homeland security is to identify abnormal or suspicious entities in large datasets. Although there are methods from data mining and social netwo...
The problem of finding clusters in data is challenging when clusters are of widely differing sizes, densities and shapes, and when the data contains large amounts of noise and out...
Exact substring matching queries on large data collections can be answered using q-gram indices, that store for each occurring q-byte pattern an (ordered) posting list with the po...
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...