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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Francesco Bonchi is currently a researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Pisa (Italy) in December 2003. From 2003 to 2007 he has been a researcher at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council in Pisa where he was a member of the KDD Laboratory. His research interests include data mining, web mining, social networks, and the privacy issues related to mining these kinds of sensible data.
He is co-editor of the book “Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques” to be published in 2010 by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. He has been organizing the Privacy, Security and Trust workshop at SIGKDD in 2007 and 2008. He has been vice-chair at ICDM 2007, and workshop chair at ICDM 2008, area chair at ECML-PKDD 2009. He is program co-chair of ECML-PKDD 2010.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks Michalis Potamias; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Aristides Gionis, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009 [view abstract]
- Voting in Social Networks Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
- Voting in Social Network Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, CIKM, 2009 [view abstract]
- From 'dango' to 'japanese cakes': Query Reformulation Models and Patterns Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, Web Intelligence, IEEE Cs Press, 2009 [view abstract]
- Taxonomy-driven lumping for sequence mining Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, 2009, 2 [view abstract]
- Compressing Tags to Find Interesting Media Groups M. van Leeuwen; F. Bonchi; A. Siebes; B. Sigurbjörnsson, CIKM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Mining graph evolution rules Michele Berlingerio; Francesco Bonchi; Bjorn Bringmann; Aristides Gionis, ECML/PKDD, 2009 [view abstract]
- Optimising topical query decomposition Marcin Sydow; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato, Workshop on Web Search Click Data, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Query Suggestions Using Query-Flow Graphs Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Sebastiano Vigna, Workshop on Web Search Click Data, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Anonymizing Moving Objects: How to Hide a MOB in a Crowd? Roman Yarovoy; Francesco Bonchi; Laks V. S. Lakshmanan; Wendy Hui Wang, 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2009), 2009 [view abstract]
- GuruMine: a Pattern Mining System for Discovering Leaders and Tribes Amit Goyal; Byung-Won On; Francesco Bonchi; Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, ICDE, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]
- Never Walk Alone: Uncertainty for Anonymity in Moving Objects Databases Osman Abul; Francesco Bonchi; Mirco Nanni, The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008 [view abstract]
- Topical query decomposition Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, ACM KDD, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- The query-flow graph: model and applications Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; Sebastiano Vigna, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, 2008 [view abstract]
- Discovering Leaders from Community Actions Amit Goyal; Francesco Bonchi; Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Sequence Mining Automata: a New Technique for Mining Frequent Sequences Under Regular Expressions Roberto Trasarti; Francesco Bonchi; Bart Goethals, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), 2008 [view abstract]