Data Mining in Public and Private Sectors: Organizational and Government Applications

1.	Before the Mining Begins
	Pages 1-20
	Dries Verlet (Ghent University, Belgium) Carl Devos (Ghent University, Belgium)

2.	Measuring the Financial Crisis in Local Governments through Data Mining
	Pages 21-46
	José Zafra-Gómez (Granada University, Spain) Antonio Cortés-Romero (Granada University, Spain)

3.	Data Mining Using Fuzzy Decision Trees
	Pages 47-66
	Malcolm Beynon (Cardiff University, UK) Martin Kitchener (Cardiff Business School, UK)

4.	The Use of Data Mining for Assessing Performance of Administrative Services
	Pages 67-82
	Zdravko Pecar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Ivan Bratko (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

5.	Productivity Analysis of Public Services
	Pages 83-105
	Aki Jääskeläinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Paula Kujansivu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Jaani Väisänen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

6.	Perceptions of Students on Location-Based Privacy and Security with Mobile Computing Technology
	Pages 106-124
	John Molluzzo (Pace University, USA) James Lawler (Pace University, USA) Pascale Vandepeutte (University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium)

7.	Privacy Preserving Data Mining
	Pages 125-141
	Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis (Vanderbilt University, USA) Vassilios Verykios (University of Thessaly, Greece)

8.	Data Mining Challenges in the Context of Data Retention
	Pages 142-161
	Konrad Stark (University of Vienna, Austria) Michael Ilger (Vienna University of Technology & University of Vienna, Austria) Wilfried Gansterer (University of Vienna, Austria)

9.	On Data Mining and Knowledge
	Pages 162-183
	Oliver Krone (Independent Scholar, Germany)

10.	Data Mining Methods for Crude Oil Market Analysis and Forecast
	Pages 184-203
	Jue Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Wei Xu (Renmin University, China) Xun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yejing Bao (Beijing University of Technology, China) Ye Pang (The People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China, China) Shouyang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

11.	Correlation Analysis in Classifiers
	Pages 204-218
	Vincent Lemaire (France Télécom, France) Carine Hue (GFI Informatique, France) Olivier Bernier (France Télécom, France)

12.	Forecast Analysis for Sales in Large-Scale Retail Trade
	Pages 219-244
	Mirco Nanni (ISTI institute of CNR, Italy) Laura Spinsanti (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

13.	Preparing for New Competition in the Retail Industry
	Pages 245-266
	Goran Klepac (Raiffeisen Bank Austria, Croatia)

14.	An Exposition of CaRBS Based Data Mining
	Pages 267-288
	Malcolm Beynon (Cardiff University, UK) Rhys Andrews (Cardiff Business School, UK)

15.	Data Mining In the Context of Business Network Research
	Pages 289-315
	Jukka Aaltonen (University of Lapland, Finland) Annamari Turunen (University of Lapland, Finland) Ilkka Kamaja (University of Lapland, Finland)

16.	Clinical Data Mining in the Age of Evidence-Based Practice
	Pages 316-336
	Irwin Epstein (City University of New York, USA) Lynette Joubert (University of Melbourne, Australia)

17.	Data Mining and the Project Management Environment
	Pages 337-357
	Emanuel Camilleri (Ministry of Finance, Economy and Investment, Malta)

18.	User Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Networked Environment
	Pages 358-374
	Rauno Kuusisto (Finnish Defence Force Technical Centre, Finland)