Welcome to the laboratory for database and data mining at Simon Fraser university. In today's information society, we witness an explosive growth of the amount of information becoming available in ...

A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress ...

1. Can existing data and infrastructure support the proposed data-mining tool? Some solutions will require a separate server for analysis, which could increase the expenditure by adding server ...

Self-service data exploration by line-of-business analysts is an ideal that has been elusive in the world of big data. Whether hampered by issues with hardware or data-set tuning, business analysts ...

Is there gold in them there mountains of data? The average large enterprise has terabytes of data on hand — customer information, supplier exchanges, and internal company records that contain data.

Data Mining is relatively new technology but it provides extremely powerful functionality for our Business Intelligence solutions. The typical Data Warehouse may be multiple terabytes so how do we ...

Data mining is the analysis of data and the use of software techniques for finding patterns and regularities in sets of data. A protocol is proposed for privacy preservation in horizontally ...

Text and Data Mining (TDM) is the practice of using technology to scan large amounts of data or text in order to identify themes, issues and correlations across different publications. This is ...

You like science fiction books, and Amazon.com wants to sell them to you. So why does the e-commerce giant peddle DVDs, Q-Tips and Valentine's Day chocolates when you click on its site? The answer is ...