Most current work in data mining assumes that the database is static, and a database update requires rediscovering all the patterns by scanning the entire old and new database. Su...
In this paper, we study the spread of influence through a social network, in a model initially studied by Kempe, Kleinberg and Tardos [14, 15]: We are given a graph modeling a soc...
"Inside information" comes in many forms: knowledge of a corporate takeover, a terrorist attack, unexpectedly poor earnings, the FDA's acceptance of a new drug, etc...
Independence analysis is the problem of determining whether an update affects the result of a query, e.g. a constraint or materialized view. We develop a new, modular framework fo...
Schema mapping algorithms rely on value correspondences ? i.e., correspondences among semantically related attributes ? to produce complex transformations among data sources. Thes...