David J. Hand

Heikki Mannila

Padhraic Smyth

The first truly interdisciplinary text on data mining, blending the contributions of information science, computer science, and statistics. The growing interest in data mining is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one store, access, model, and ultimately describe and understand very large data sets? Historically, different aspects of data mining have been addressed independently by different disciplines. This is the first truly interdisciplinary text on data mining, blending the contributions of information science, computer science, and statistics. The book consists of three sections. The first, foundations, provides a tutorial overview of the principles underlying data mining algorithms and their application. The presentation emphasizes intuition rather than rigor. The second section, data mining algorithms, shows how algorithms are constructed to solve specific problems in a principled manner. The algorithms covered include trees and rules for classification and regression, association rules, belief networks, classical statistical models, nonlinear models such as neural networks, and local "memory-based" models. The third section shows how all of the preceding analysis fits together when applied to real-world data mining problems. Topics include the role of metadata, how to handle missing data, and data preprocessing.

Principles of Data Mining

Luc De Raedt

Jean-Francois Boulicaut

The interconnected ideas of inductive databases and constraint-based mining are appealing and have the potential to radically change the theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery. This book reports on the results of the European IST project "cInQ" (consortium on knowledge discovery by Inductive Queries) and its final workshop entitled Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases organized in Hinterzarten, Germany in March 2004.

European Workshop on Inductive Databases and Constraint Based Mining, Hinterzarten, Germany, March 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases

Pekka Orponen

Tapio Elomaa

This Festschrift volume, published to honor Esko Ukkonen on his 60th birthday, includes papers that present research on computational pattern matching and string algorithms, two areas that have benefited significantly from the work of Ukonen.

Essays Dedicated to Esko Ukkonen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Algorithms and Applications

Jaakko Hollmen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2011, held in Espoo, Finland, in October 2011 - co-located with ALT 2011, the 22nd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited lectures were carefully revised and selected from 56 submissions. The papers cover a wide range including the development and analysis of methods for automatic scientific knowledge discovery, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, theory of learning, as well as their application to knowledge discovery.

14th International Conference, DS 2011, Espoo, Finland, October 5-7, Proceedings

Discovery Science

Hannu Toivonen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, PKDD 2002, held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2002. The 39 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Among the topics covered are kernel methods, probabilistic methods, association rule mining, rough sets, sampling algorithms, pattern discovery, web text mining, meta data clustering, rule induction, information extraction, dependency detection, rare class prediction, classifier systems, text classification, temporal sequence analysis, unsupervised learning, time series analysis, medical data mining, etc.

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