1. Gong show Stefano Ceri Politecnico di Milano

2. Higher order data mining Given a database, give me all the results to the interesting queries –Needs to find (almost) all the queries (from the schema) and to sort out those which have an interesting result. –Much more general – and useful – than association rules et. al. (narrow focus so far???) Example: Lowells participants list (only one from Asia) (only two women) (everyones age is above 40 and below 60(, except ….)) Example: serves(bar,beer), likes(person, beer), visits(person,bar) [Bart Goethals] (Bob likes all the beers) (Alfredos is the most popular bar serving all beers) (people who like Guinness only go to bars serving Guinness) (Carol is the only person going to a bar that does not serve a beer she likes)

3. Higher order search engines Current search engines looks for terms (attributes) in a page (entity) –Fail to find ethnical restaurants in a nice place outside Milano Example: Find ethnical restaurants close to Milano: (city: lombardia) (ethnical restaurant) pavia 30 entries como 20 entries (outside milano) linked by (ethnical restaurant) certosa di pavia....... Ethiopian restaurant monza park............. Egyptian restaurant Higher-order search: more expressive model, and simple ways to get instructions from users –domains (e.g.: city, time, artist, politician, meal, wine....) –relationships between pages (e.g. Page linked-to/linked-by Page)