Journal of Database Management articles from January 2005

Journal of Database Management archives from January 2005

Special issue: database technology for enhancing national security.
January 1, 2005... National security has received unprecedented attention from academics, industrial leaders and the general public since September 11, 2001. The resulting worrying situation calls for solutions from a variety of promising areas, such as...

On U.S. homeland security and database technology.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, "homeland security" has become the centerpiece of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. The number of terrorists is a tiny fraction of all the people who live in or enter the U.S....

Information quality: critical ingredient for national security.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Information Quality Management is critical for national security not just because of the myriad information types, including textual audio, video and other complex information types and to the difficulties in collecting...

Semantic association identification and knowledge discovery for national security applications.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Public and private organizations have access to a vast amount of internal, deep Web and open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into actionable and insightful information is the key to...

Text mining, names and security.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT A Process Query System, a new approach to representing and querying multiple hypotheses, is proposed for cross-document co-reference and linking based on existing entity extraction, co-reference and database name-matching...

A database interface for link analysis.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Understanding data gathered so far in a criminal or terrorist threat investigation is of great importance, particularly in guiding the future course of the investigation. One established method of better understanding the data...

Privacy-preserving data mining: developments and directions.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article first describes the privacy concerns that arise due to data mining, especially for national security applications. Then we discuss privacy-preserving data mining. In particular, we view the privacy problem as a form...