Francesco Bonchi, Ph.D.
Researcher at
Yahoo! Research Barcelona
Avinguda Diagonal 177, 8th floor
Barcelona, Spain
Fax
+34 931838901
Phone
+34 931838845
Email
bonchi@yahoo-inc.com
Personal Information
1998 - Laurea Degree in Computer Science,
University of Pisa, Italy.
2003 - Ph.D. in Computer Science,
University of Pisa, Italy.
[2003-2007] - Researcher at KDD Lab
ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy.
As of January 1st 2008, I'm researcher at
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain.
Recent Publications
A. Goyal, F. Bonchi, L. V. S. Lakshmanan
Learning Influence Probabilities In Social Networks
Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010)
©ACM
. February 4-6, 2010, New York City, USA
O. Abul, F. Bonchi, F. Giannotti
Hiding Sequential and Spatio-temporal Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
©IEEE
, accepted for publication, 2009.
M. van Leeuwen, F. Bonchi, A. Siebes, B. Sigurbjörnsson
Compressing Tags to Find Interesting Media Groups
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
[Best Student Paper Runner-up]
©ACM
. November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong.
M. Potamias, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, A. Gionis
Fast Shortest Path Distance Estimation in Large Networks
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
[Best Student Paper Award]
©ACM
. November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong.
P. Boldi, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, S. Vigna
Voting in Social Networks
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
©ACM
. November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong.
P. Boldi, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, S. Vigna
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2009)
[Best Paper Award]
©IEEE
. September 15-18, 2009, Milan, Italy.
F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, D. Donato, A. Gionis
Taxonomy-driven lumping for sequence mining
In Proceedings of the The 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 13th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
©Springer
. September 7-11, 2009, Bled, Slovenia. [Selected for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal special issue publication]
M. Berlingerio, F. Bonchi, B. Bringmann, A. Gionis
Mining Graph Evolution Rules
In Proceedings of the The 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 13th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
©Springer
. September 7-11, 2009, Bled, Slovenia.
F. Bonchi
Privacy Preserving Publication of Moving Object Data
In "Privacy in Location-Based Applications", C. Bettini, S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, X. S. Wang Eds., State of the Art Survey, LNCS vol. 5599,
©Springer
, 2009.
R. Yarovoy, F. Bonchi, L. V. S. Lakshmanan, W. H. Wang
Anonymizing Moving Objects: How to Hide a MOB in a Crowd?
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2009)
©ACM
March 24-26, 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
A. Goyal, B. W. On, F. Bonchi, L. V. S. Lakshmanan
GuruMine: a Pattern Mining System for Discovering Leaders and Tribes
In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
©IEEE
March 29 - April 4, 2009, Shanghai, China.
Complete list of my publications
DBLP
Recent Scientific Activities
Program Co-Chair of The 21st European Conference on Machine Learning and The 14th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2010)
Area Chair of The 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 13th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009)
I was a panelist at ICDM'08! The panel was entitled "Social Networks and Data Mining: Where’s the Beef?" The other panelists were: Tanya Berger-Wolf, Bettina Berendt, Elena Ferrari, Jiawei Han, and Dino Pedreschi. The panel chair was Jean-François Boulicaut.
PC Member of: WWW, KDD, ICDE, ICDM, ECML-PKDD, PAKDD, ...
Reviewer for Journals: VLDBJ, TODS, TKDD, TKDE, IS, KAIS, WWW, IEEE-C, IEEE-IC, JBI, JCS, ...
Complete list of my scientific activities