Most medical curricula rely on human bodies for teaching macroscopic anatomy. Over the
past 20 years, plastination has become an important means of preservation of organs, for …

The growing popularity and development of data mining technologies bring serious threat to
the security of individual,'s sensitive information. An emerging research topic in data mining …

Today's systems produce a rapidly exploding amount of data, and the data further derives
more data, forming a complex data propagation network that we call the data's lineage …

Smartphones are programmable and equipped with a set of cheap but powerful embedded
sensors, such as accelerometer, digital compass, gyroscope, GPS, microphone, and …

Mobile phone sensing is a new paradigm which takes advantage of the pervasive
smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible …

User data is the primary input of digital advertising, fueling the free Internet as we know it. As
a result, web companies invest a lot in elaborate tracking mechanisms to acquire user data …

Most online service providers offer free services to users and in part, these services collect
and monetize personally identifiable information (PII), primarily via targeted advertisements …

Personal data has value to both its owner and to institutions who would like to analyze it.
Privacy mechanisms protect the owner's data while releasing to analysts noisy versions of …

Online tracking poses a serious privacy challenge that has drawn significant attention in
both academia and industry. Existing approaches for preventing user tracking, based on …

A data marketplace is an online venue that brings data owners, data brokers, and data
consumers together and facilitates commoditisation of data amongst them. Data pricing, as a …