Volume I

Action Rules Mining

Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Elzbieta Wyrzykowska, University of Information Technology & Management, Warsaw, Poland
Li-Shiang Tsay, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

Active Learning with Multiple Views

Ion Muslea, SRI International, USA

Adaptive Web Presence and Evolution through Web Log Analysis

Xueping Li, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Aligning the Warehouse and the Web

Hadrian Peter, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Charles Greenidge, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Analytical Competition for Managing Customer Relations

Dan Zhu, Iowa State University, USA

Analytical Knowledge Warehousing for Business Intelligence

Chun-Che Huang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Anomaly Detection for Inferring Social Structure

Lisa Friedland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Application of Data-Mining to Recommender Systems, The

J. Ben Schafer, University of Northern Iowa, USA

Applications of Kernel Methods

Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain
Manel Martínez-Ramón, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Rojo-Álvarez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Architecture for Symbolic Object Warehouse

Sandra Elizabeth González Císaro, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Héctor Oscar Nigro, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Association Bundle Identification

Wenxue Huang, Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada
Milorad Krneta, Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada
Limin Lin, Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada & Mathematics and Statistics Department, York University, Toronto, Canada
Jianhong Wu, Mathematics and Statistics Department, York University, Toronto, Canada

Association Rule Hiding Methods

Vassilios S. Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece

Association Rule Mining

Yew-Kwong Woon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Association Rule Mining for the QSAR Problem, On

Luminita Dumitriu, “Dunarea de Jos” University, Romania
Cristina Segal, “Dunarea de Jos” University, Romania
Marian Craciun, “Dunarea de Jos” University, Romania
Adina Cocu, “Dunarea de Jos” University, Romania

Association Rule Mining of Relational Data

Anne Denton, North Dakota State University, USA
Christopher Besemann, North Dakota State University, USA

Association Rules and Statistics

Martine Cadot, University of Henri Poincaré/LORIA, Nancy, France
Jean-Baptiste Maj, LORIA/INRIA, France
Tarek Ziadé, NUXEO, France

Audio and Speech Processing for Data Mining

Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark

Audio Indexing

Gaël Richard, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (TELECOM ParisTech), France

Automatic Data Warehouse Conceptual Design Approach, An

Jamel FEKI, Mir@cl Laboratory, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Ahlem Nabli, Mir@cl Laboratory, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Hanêne Ben-Abdallah, Mir@cl Laboratory, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Faiez Gargouri, Mir@cl Laboratory, Université de Sfax, Tunisia

Automatic Genre-Specific Text Classification

Xiaoyan Yu, Virginia Tech, USA; Manas Tungare, Virginia Tech, USA
Weiguo Fan, Virginia Tech, USA
Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Virginia Tech, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
William Cameron, Villanova University, USA
Lillian Cassel, Villanova University, USA

Automatic Music Timbre Indexing

Xin Zhang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Bayesian Based Machine Learning Application to Task Analysis, A

Shu-Chiang Lin, Purdue University, USA
Mark R. Lehto, Purdue University, USA

Behavioral Pattern-Based Customer Segmentation

Yinghui Yang, University of California, Davis, USA

Best Practices in Data Warehousing

Les Pang, University of Maryland University College, USA

Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making

Scott Nicholson, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USA
Jeffrey Stanton, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USA

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain
Alistair Morgan Chalk, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffths University, Australia

Biological Image Analysis via Matrix Approximation

Jieping Ye, Arizona State University, USA
Ravi Janardan, University of Minnesota, USA
Sudhir Kumar, Arizona State University, USA

Bitmap Join Indexes vs. Data Partitioning

Ladjel Bellatreche, Poitiers University, France

Bridging Taxonomic Semantics to Accurate Hierarchical Classification

Lei Tang, Arizona State University, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
Jianping Zhang, The MITRE Corporation, USA

Case Study of a Data Warehouse in the Finnish Police, A

Arla Juntunen, Helsinki School of Economics/Finland’s Government Ministry of the Interior, Finland

Classification and Regression Trees

Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA

Classification Methods

Aijun An, York University, Canada

Classification of Graph Structures

Andrzej Dominik, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Zbigniew Walczak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Jacek Wojciechowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Classifying Two-Class Chinese Texts in Two Steps

Xinghua Fan, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Cluster Analysis for Outlier Detection

Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Frank Rehm, German Aerospace Center, Germany

Cluster Analysis in Fitting Mixtures of Curves

Tom Burr, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Cluster Analysis with General Latent Class Model

Dingxi Qiu, University of Miami, USA
Edward C. Malthouse, Northwestern University, USA

Cluster Validation

Ricardo Vilalta, University of Houston, USA
Tomasz Stepinski, Lunar and Planetary Institute, USA

Clustering Analysis of Data with High Dimensionality

Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
Qi Yu, Virginia Tech, USA

Clustering Categorical Data with K-Modes

Joshua Zhexue Huang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Clustering Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems

Mei Li, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Clustering of Time Series Data

Anne Denton, North Dakota State University, USA

Clustering Techniques, On

Sheng Ma,Machine Learning for Systems IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tao Li, School of Computer Science Florida International University, USA

Comparing Four-Selected Data Mining Software

Richard S. Segall, Arkansas State University, USA
Qingyu Zhang, Arkansas State University, USA

Compression-Based Data Mining

Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside, USA
Li Wei, Google, Inc, USA
John C. Handley, Xerox Innovation Group, USA

Computation of OLAP Data Cubes

Amin A. Abdulghani, Quantiva, USA

Conceptual Modeling for Data Warehouse and OLAP Applications

Elzbieta Malinowski, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Constrained Data Mining

Brad Morantz, Science Applications International Corporation, USA

Constraint-Based Association Rule Mining

Carson Kai-Sang Leung, The University of Manitoba, Canada

Constraint-Based Pattern Discovery

Francesco Bonchi, ISTI-C.N.R, Italy

Context-Driven Decision Mining

Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Michael Pashkin, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Tatiana Levashova, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Alexey Kashevnik, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Nikolay Shilov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Context-Sensitive Attribute Evaluation

Marko Robnik-Šikonja, University of Ljubljana, FRI

Control-Based Database Tuning Under Dynamic Workloads

Yi-Cheng Tu, University of South Florida, USA
Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology of America, Inc., USA

Cost-Sensitive Learning

Victor S. Sheng, New York University, USA
Charles X. Ling, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Count Models for Software Quality Estimation

Kehan Gao, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Data Analysis for Oil Production Prediction

Christine W. Chan, University of Regina, Canada
Hanh H. Nguyen, University of Regina, Canada
Xiongmin Li, University of Regina, Canada

Data Confidentiality and Chase-Based Knowledge Discovery

Seunghyun Im, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Data Cube Compression Techniques: A Theoretical Review

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Data Distribution View of Clustering Algorithms, A

Junjie Wu, Tsingnua University, China
Jian Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Data Driven vs. Metric Driven Data Warehouse Design

John M. Artz, The George Washington University, USA

Data Mining and Privacy

Esma Aïmeur, Université de Montréal, Canada
Sébastien Gambs, Université de Montréal, Canada

Data Mining and the Text Categorization Framework

Paola Cerchiello, University of Pavia, Italy

Data Mining Applications in Steel Industry

Joaquín Ordieres-Meré, University of La Rioja, Spain
Manuel Castejón-Limas, University of León, Spain
Ana González-Marcos, University of León, Spain

Data Mining Applications in the Hospitality Industry

Soo Kim, Montclair State University, USA
Li-Chun Lin, Montclair State University, USA
Yawei Wang, Montclair State University, USA

Data Mining for Fraud Detection System

Roberto Marmo, University of Pavia, Italy

Data Mining for Improving Manufacturing Processes

Lior Rokach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Data Mining for Internationalization

Luciana Dalla Valle, University of Milan, Italy

Data Mining for Lifetime Value Estimation

Silvia Figini, University of Pavia, Italy

Data Mining for Model Identification

Diego Liberati, Italian National Research Council, Italy

Data Mining for Obtaining Secure E-mail Communications

Mª Dolores del Castillo, Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Spain
Ángel Iglesias, Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Spain
José Ignacio Serrano, Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Spain

Data Mining for Structural Health Monitoring

Ramdev Kanapady, University of Minnesota, USA
Aleksandar Lazarevic, United Technologies Research Center, USA

Data Mining for the Chemical Process Industry

Ng Yew Seng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rajagopalan Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Data Mining in Genome Wide Association Studies

Tom Burr, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Data Mining in Protein Identification by Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Haipeng Wang, Institute of Computing Technology & Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Data Mining in Security Applications

Aleksandar Lazarevic, United Technologies Research Center, USA

Data Mining in the Telecommunications Industry

Gary Weiss, Fordham University, USA

Data Mining Lessons Learned in the Federal Government

Les Pang, National Defense University, USA

Data Mining Methodology for Product Family Design, A

Seung Ki Moon, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Timothy W. Simpson, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Soundar R.T. Kumara, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Data Mining on XML Data

Qin Ding, East Carolina University, USA

Data Mining Tool Selection

Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University, USA

Data Mining with Cubegrades

Amin A. Abdulghani, Data Mining Engineer, USA

Data Mining with Incomplete Data

Shouhong Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Hai Wang, Saint Mary’s University, Canada

Data Pattern Tutor for AprioriAll and PrefixSpan

Mohammed Alshalalfa, University of Calgary, Canada
Ryan Harrison, University of Calgary, Canada
Jeremy Luterbach, University of Calgary, Canada
Keivan Kianmehr, University of Calgary, Canada
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

Data Preparation for Data Mining

Magdi Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Volume II

Data Provenance

Vikram Sorathia, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), India
Anutosh Maitra, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India

Data Quality in Data Warehouses

William E. Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census, USA

Data Reduction with Rough Sets

Richard Jensen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, UK

Data Streams

João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal

Data Transformations for Normalization

Amitava Mitra, Auburn University, USA

Data Warehouse Back-End Tools

Alkis Simitsis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dimitri Theodoratos, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Data Warehouse Performance

Beixin (Betsy) Lin, Montclair State University, USA
Yu Hong, Colgate-Palmolive Company, USA
Zu-Hsu Lee, Montclair State University, USA

Data Warehousing and Mining in Supply Chains

Reuven R. Levary, Saint Louis University, USA
Richard Mathieu, Saint Louis University, USA

Data Warehousing for Association Mining

Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Database Queries, Data Mining, and OLAP

Lutz Hamel, University of Rhode Island, USA

Database Sampling for Data Mining

Patricia E.N. Lutu, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Database Security and Statistical Database Security

Edgar R. Weippl, Secure Business Austria, Austria

Data-Driven Revision of Decision Models

Martin Žnidaršič, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Marko Bohanec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Decision Tree Induction

Roberta Siciliano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Claudio Conversano, University of Cagliari, Italy

Deep Web Mining through Web Services

Monica Maceli, Drexel University, USA
Min Song, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Temple University, USA

DFM as a Conceptual Model for Data Warehouse

Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Direction-Aware Proximity on Graphs

Hanghang Tong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yehuda Koren, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Discovering an Effective Measure in Data Mining

Takao Ito, Ube National College of Technology, Japan

Discovering Knowledge from XML Documents

Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Discovering Unknown Patterns in Free Text

Jan H Kroeze, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Machdel C. Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Discovery Informatics from Data to Knowledge

William W. Agresti, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Discovery of Protein Interaction Sites

Haiquan Li, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc, USA
Jinyan Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xuechun Zhao, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc, USA

Distance-Based Methods for Association Rule Mining

Vladimír Bartík, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Zendulka, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Distributed Association Rule Mining

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Mafruz Zaman Ashrafi, Monash University, Australia
Kate A. Smith, Monash University, Australia

Distributed Data Aggregation for DDoS Attacks Detection

Yu Chen, State University of New York - Binghamton, USA
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA

Distributed Data Mining

Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Document Indexing Techniques for Text Mining

José Ignacio Serrano, Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Spain
Mª Dolores del Castillo, Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Spain

Dynamic Data Mining

Richard Weber, University of Chile, Chile

Dynamical Feature Extraction from Brain Activity Time Series

Chang-Chia Liu, University of Florida, USA
Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University, USA
Basim M. Uthman, NF/SG VHS & University of Florida, USA
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA

Efficient Graph Matching

Diego Refogiato Recupero, University of Catania, Italy

Enclosing Machine Learning

Xunkai Wei, University of Air Force Engineering, China
Yinghong Li, University of Air Force Engineering, China
Yufei Li, University of Air Force Engineering, China

Enhancing Web Search through Query Expansion

Daniel Crabtree, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Enhancing Web Search through Query Log Mining

Ji-Rong Wen, Miscrosoft Research Asia, China

Enhancing Web Search through Web Structure Mining

Ji-Rong Wen, Miscrosoft Research Asia, China

Ensemble Data Mining Methods

Nikunj C. Oza, NASA Ames Research Center, USA

Ensemble Learning for Regression

Niall Rooney, University of Ulster, UK
David Patterson, University of Ulster, UK
Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, UK

Ethics of Data Mining

Jack Cook, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Evaluation of Data Mining Methods

Paolo Giudici, University of Pavia, Italy

Evaluation of Decision Rules by Qualities for Decision-Making Systems

Ivan Bruha, McMaster University, Canada

Evolution of SDI Geospatial Data Clearinghouses, The

Maurie Caitlin Kelly, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bernd J. Haupt, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ryan E. Baxter, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Evolutionary Approach to Dimensionality Reduction

Amit Saxena, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, India
Megha Kothari, St. Peter’s University, Chennai, India
Navneet Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Algorithms

William H. Hsu, Kansas State University, USA

Evolutionary Data Mining For Genomics

Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille, France
Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille, France
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France

Evolutionary Development of ANNs for Data Mining

Daniel Rivero, University of A Coruña, Spain
Juan R. Rabuñal, University of A Coruña, Spain
Julián Dorado, University of A Coruña, Spain
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruña, Spain

Evolutionary Mining of Rule Ensembles

Jorge Muruzábal, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Explanation-Oriented Data Mining, On

Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Yan Zhao, University of Regina, Canada

Extending a Conceptual Multidimensional Model for Representing Spatial Data

Elzbieta Malinowski, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Facial Recognition

Rory A. Lewis, UNC-Charlotte, USA
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Feature Extraction/ Selection in High-Dimensional Spectral Data

Seoung Bum Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Feature Reduction for Support Vector Machines

Shouxian Cheng, Planet Associates, Inc., USA
Frank Y. Shih, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Feature Selection

Damien François, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Financial Time Series Data Mining

Indranil Bose, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chung Man Alvin Leung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yiu Ki Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Flexible Mining of Association Rules

Hong Shen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Formal Concept Analysis Based Clustering

Jamil M. Saquer, Southwest Missouri State University, USA

Frequent Sets Mining in Data Stream Environments

Xuan Hong Dang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia

Fuzzy Methods in Data Mining

Eyke Hüllermeier, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

General Model for Data Warehouses

Michel Schneider, Blaise Pascal University, France

Genetic Algorithm for Selecting Horizontal Fragments, A

Ladjel Bellatreche, Poitiers University, France

Genetic Programming

William H. Hsu, Kansas State University, USA

Genetic Programming for Creating Data Mining Algorithms

Alex A. Freitas, University of Kent, UK
Gisele L. Pappa, Federal University of Minas Geras, Brazil

Global Induction of Decision Trees

Kretowski Marek, Bialystok Technical University, Poland
Grzes Marek, University of York, UK

Graph-Based Data Mining

Lawrence B. Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Graphical Data Mining

Carol J. Romanowski, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Guide Manifold Alignment by Relative Comparisons

Liang Xiong, Tsinghua University, China
Fei Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Changshui Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Guided Sequence Alignment

Abdullah N. Arslan, University of Vermont, USA

Hierarchical Document Clustering

Benjamin C. M. Fung, Concordia University, Canada
Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Histograms for OLAP and Data-Stream Queries

Francesco Buccafurri, DIMET, Università di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Gianluca Caminiti, DIMET, Università di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Gianluca Lax, DIMET, Università di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Homeland Security Data Mining and Link Analysis

Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corporation, USA

Humanities Data Warehousing

Janet Delve, University of Portsmouth, UK

Hybrid Genetic Algorithms in Data Mining Applications

Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain
Carlos Bousoño-Calzón, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Imprecise Data and the Data Mining Process

John F. Kros, East Carolina University, USA
Marvin L. Brown, Grambling State University, USA

Incremental Learning

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Incremental Mining from News Streams

Seokkyung Chung, University of Southern California, USA
Jongeun Jun, University of Southern California, USA
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA

Inexact Field Learning Approach for Data Mining

Honghua Dai, Deakin University, Australia

Information Fusion for Scientific Literature Classification

Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA

Information Veins and Resampling with Rough Set Theory

Benjamin Griffiths, Cardiff University, UK
Malcolm J. Beynon, Cardiff University, UK

Instance Selection

Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA; Lei Yu, Arizona State University, USA

Integration of Data Mining and Operations Research

Stephan Meisel, University of Braunschweig, Germany
Dirk C. Mattfeld, University of Braunschweig, Germany

Integration of Data Sources through Data Mining

Andreas Koeller, Montclair State University, USA

Integrative Data Analysis for Biological Discovery

Sai Moturu, Arizona State University, USA
Lance Parsons, Arizona State University, USA
Zheng Zhao, Arizona State University, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Intelligent Image Archival and Retrieval System

P. Punitha, University of Glasgow, UK
D. S. Guru, University of Mysore, India

Intelligent Query Answering

Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Agnieszka Dardzinska, Bialystok Technical University, Poland

Interacting Features in Subset Selection, On

Zheng Zhao, Arizona State University, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Interactive Data Mining, On

Yan Zhao, University of Regina, Canada
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Interest Pixel Mining

Qi Li, Western Kentucky University, USA
Jieping Ye, Arizona State University, USA
Chandra Kambhamettu, University of Delaware, USA

Introduction to Kernel Methods, An

Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain
Manel Martínez-Ramón, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Rojo-Álvarez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Issue of Missing Values in Data Mining, The

Malcolm J. Beynon, Cardiff University, UK

Volume III

Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Data

Doina Caragea, Kansas State University, USA
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA

Knowledge Discovery in Databases with Diversity of Data Types

QingXing Wu, University of Ulster at Magee, UK
T. Martin McGinnity, University of Ulster at Magee, UK
Girijesh Prasad, University of Ulster at Magee, UK
David Bell, Queen’s University, UK

Learning Bayesian Networks

Marco F. Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, USA
Paola Sebastiani, Boston University School of Public Health, USA

Learning Exceptions to Refine a Domain Expertise

Rallou Thomopoulos, INRA/LIRMM, France

Learning from Data Streams

João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal

Learning Kernels for Semi-Supervised Clustering

Bojun Yan, George Mason University, USA
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA

Learning Temporal Information from Text

Feng Pan, University of Southern California, USA

Learning with Partial Supervision

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Legal and Technical Issues of Privacy Preservation in Data Mining

Kirsten Wahlstrom, University of South Australia, Australia
John F. Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
Rick Sarre, University of South Australia, Australia
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Griffith University, Australia
Denise de Vries, Flinders University, Australia

Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Classification

Yinghui Yang, University of California, Davis, USA
Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida, USA

Locally Adaptive Techniques for Pattern Classification

Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of California, USA
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA

Mass Informatics in Differential Proteomics

Xiang Zhang, University of Louisville, USA
Seza Orcun, Purdue University, USA
Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA
Cheolhwan Oh, Purdue University, USA

Materialized View Selection for Data Warehouse Design

Dimitri Theodoratos, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Alkis Simitsis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Wugang Xu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Matrix Decomposition Techniques for Data Privacy

Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky, USA
Jie Wang, University of Kentucky, USA
Shuting Xu, Virginia State University, USA

Measuring the Interestingness of News Articles

Raymond K. Pon, University of California–Los Angeles, USA
Alfonso F. Cardenas, University of California–Los Angeles, USA
David J. Buttler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Metaheuristics in Data Mining

Miguel García Torres, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Belén Melián Batista, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
José A. Moreno Pérez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
José Marcos Moreno-Vega, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

Meta-Learning

Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University, USA
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Soares, University of Porto, Portugal
Ricardo Vilalta, University of Houston, USA

Method of Recognizing Entity and Relation, A

Xinghua Fan, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Microarray Data Mining

Li-Min Fu, Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA

Minimum Description Length Adaptive Bayesian Mining

Diego Liberati, Italian National Research Council, Italy

Mining 3D Shape Data for Morphometric Pattern Discovery

Li Shen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Mining Chat Discussions

Stanley Loh, Catholic University of Pelotas & Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil
Daniel Licthnow, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Thyago Borges, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Tiago Primo, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Rodrigo Branco Kickhöfel, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Gabriel Simões, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Gustavo Piltcher, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
Ramiro Saldaña, Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil

Mining Data Streams

Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs, USA
Gary Weiss, Fordham University, USA

Mining Data with Group Theoretical Means

Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany

Mining Email Data

Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Steffan Bickel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Mining Generalized Association Rules in an Evolving Environment

Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ming-Cheng Tseng, Institute of Information Engineering, Taiwan

Mining Generalized Web Data for Discovering Usage Patterns

Doru Tanasa, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France
Brigitte Trousse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

Mining Group Differences

Shane M. Butler, Monash University, Australia
Geoffrey I. Webb, Monash University, Australia

Mining Repetitive Patterns in Multimedia Data

Junsong Yuan, Northwestern University, USA
Ying Wu, Northwestern University, USA

Mining Smart Card Data from an Urban Transit Network

Bruno Agard, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Catherine Morency, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Martin Trépanier, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Mining Software Specifications

David Lo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Siau-Cheng Khoo, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Mining the Internet for Concepts

Ramon F. Brena, Tecnolόgico de Monterrey, Mexίco
Ana Maguitman, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Eduardo H. Ramirez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Model Assessment with ROC Curves

Lutz Hamel, University of Rhode Island, USA

Modeling Quantiles

Claudia Perlich, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Saharon Rosset, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Bianca Zadrozny, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Modeling Score Distributions

Anca Doloc-Mihu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Modeling the KDD Process

Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India
S. K. Gupta, IIT, Delhi, India

Multi-Agent System for Handling Adaptive E-Services, A

Pasquale De Meo, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Giovanni Quattrone, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Giorgio Terracina, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Italy
Domenico Ursino, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Multiclass Molecular Classification

Chia Huey Ooi, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore

Multidimensional Modeling of Complex Data

Omar Boussaid, University Lumière Lyon 2, France
Doulkifli Boukraa, University of Jijel, Algeria

Multi-Group Data Classification via MILP

Fadime Üney Yüksektepe, Koç University, Turkey
Metin Türkay, Koç University, Turkey

Multi-Instance Learning with MultiObjective Genetic Programming

Amelia Zafra, University of Cordoba, Spain
Sebastián Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain

Multilingual Text Mining

Peter A. Chew, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Multiple Criteria Optimization in Data Mining

Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yi Peng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yong Shi, CAS Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Sciences, China & University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Multiple Hypothesis Testing for Data Mining

Sach Mukherjee, University of Oxford, UK

Music Information Retrieval

Alicja Wieczorkowska, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland

Neural Networks and Graph Transformations

Ingrid Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany

New Opportunities in Marketing Data Mining

Victor S.Y. Lo, Fidelity Investments, USA

Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques

Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Novel Approach on Negative Association Rules, A

Ioannis N. Kouris, University of Patras, Greece

Offline Signature Recognition

Richa Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Indrani Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Nilesh Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Mayank Vatsa, Indian Institute of Technology, India
P. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, India

OLAP Visualization: Models, Issues, and Techniques

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Svetlana Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany

Online Analytical Processing Systems

Rebecca Boon-Noi Tan, Monash University, Australia

Online Signature Recognition

Mayank Vatsa, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Indrani Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Nilesh Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Richa Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
P. Gupta, Indian Instituteof Technology, India

Ontologies and Medical Terminologies

James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Order Preserving Data Mining

Ioannis N. Kouris, University of Patras, Greece
Christos H. Makris, University of Patras, Greece
Kostas E. Papoutsakis, University of Patras, Greece

Outlier Detection

Sharanjit Kaur, University of Delhi, India

Outlier Detection Techniques for Data Mining

Fabrizio Angiulli, University of Calabria, Italy

Path Mining and Process Mining for Workflow Management Systems

Jorge Cardoso, SAP AG, Germany
W.M.P. van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Pattern Discovery as Event Association

Andrew K. C. Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yang Wang, Pattern Discovery Technology, Canada
Gary C. L. Li, University of Waterloo, Canada

Pattern Preserving Clustering

Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA; Michael Steinbach, University of Minnesota, USA
Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University, USA
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Wenjun Zhou, Rutgers University, USA

Pattern Synthesis for Nonparametric Pattern Recognition

P. Viswanath, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
M. Narasimha Murty, Indian Institute of Science, India
Shalabh Bhatnagar, Indian Institute of Science, India

Pattern Synthesis in SVM Based Classifier

Radha. C, Indian Institute of Science, India
M. Narasimha Murty, Indian Institute of Science, India

Personal Name Problem and a Data Mining Solution, The

Clifton Phua, Monash University, Australia
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia
Kate Smith-Miles, Deakin University, Australia

Perspectives and Key Technologies of Semantic Web Search

Konstantinos Kotis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Philosophical Perspective on Knowledge Creation, A

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Rajeev K Bali, Coventry University, UK

Physical Data Warehousing Design

Ladjel Bellatreche, Poitiers University, France
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India

Positive Unlabelled Learning for Document Classification

Xiao-Li Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Predicting Resource Usage for Capital Efficient Marketing

D. R. Mani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, USA
Andrew L. Betz, Progressive Insurance, USA
James H. Drew, Verizon Laboratories, USA

Preference Modeling and Mining for Personalization

Seung-won Hwang, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea

Privacy Preserving OLAP and OLAP Security

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Vincenzo Russo, University of Calabria, Italy

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining

Stanley R. M. Oliveira, Embrapa Informática Agropecuária, Brazil

Volume IV

Process Mining to Analyze the Behaviour of Specific Users

Laura Măruşter, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Niels R. Faber, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Profit Mining

Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Senqiang Zhou, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Comprehension through Data Mining

Ioannis N. Kouris, University of Patras, Greece

Program Mining Augmented with Empirical Properties

Minh Ngoc Ngo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hee Beng Kuan Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Projected Clustering for Biological Data Analysis

Ping Deng, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
Qingkai Ma, Utica College, USA
Weili Wu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Proximity-Graph-Based Tools for DNA Clustering

Imad Khoury, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
Godfried Toussaint, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
Antonio Ciampi, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada
Isadora Antoniano, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Carl Murie, McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Canada
Robert Nadon, McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Canada; Canada

Pseudo-Independent Models and Decision Theoretic Knowledge Discovery

Yang Xiang, University of Guelph, Canada

Quality of Association Rules by Chi-Squared Test

Wen-Chi Hou, Southern Illinois University, USA
Maryann Dorn, Southern Illinois University, USA

Quantization of Continuous Data for Pattern Based Rule Extraction

Andrew Hamilton-Wright, University of Guelph, Canada, & Mount Allison University, Canada
Daniel W. Stashuk, University of Waterloo, Canada

Realistic Data for Testing Rule Mining Algorithms

Colin Cooper, Kings’ College, UK
Michele Zito, University of Liverpool, UK

Real-Time Face Detection and Classification for ICCTV

Brian C. Lovell, The University of Queensland, Australia
Shaokang Chen, NICTA, Australia
Ting Shan, NICTA, Australia

Reasoning about Frequent Patterns with Negation

Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis

Nicolas Lachiche, University of Strasbourg, France

Reflecting Reporting Problems and Data Warehousing

Juha Kontio, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Robust Face Recognition for Data Mining

Brian C. Lovell, The University of Queensland, Australia
Shaokang Chen, NICTA, Australia; Ting Shan, NICTA, Australia

Rough Sets and Data Mining

Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, USA
Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada

Sampling Methods in Approximate Query Answering Systems

Gautam Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Scalable Non-Parametric Methods for Large Data Sets

V. Suresh Babu, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
P. Viswanath, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
M. Narasimha Murty, Indian Institute of Science, India

Scientific Web Intelligence

Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Seamless Structured Knowledge Acquisition

Päivikki Parpola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Search Engines and their Impact on Data Warehouses

Hadrian Peter, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Charles Greenidge, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Search Situations and Transitions

Nils Pharo, Oslo University College, Norway

Secure Building Blocks for Data Privacy

Shuguo Han, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Secure Computation for Privacy Preserving Data Mining

Yehuda Lindell, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Segmentation of Time Series Data

Parvathi Chundi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, University of Albany, SUNY, USA

Segmenting the Mature Travel Market with Data Mining Tools

Yawei Wang, Montclair State University, USA
Susan A. Weston, Montclair State University, USA
Li-Chun Lin, Montclair State University, USA
Soo Kim, Montclair State University, USA

Semantic Data Mining

Protima Banerjee, Drexel University, USA
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA
Illhoi Yoo, Drexel University, USA

Semantic Multimedia Content Retrieval and Filtering

Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Semi-Structured Document Classification

Ludovic Denoyer, University of Paris VI, France
Patrick Gallinari, University of Paris VI, France

Semi-Supervised Learning

Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews

Cane W. K. Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Stephen C. F. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

Sequential Pattern Mining

Florent Masseglia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Maguelonne Teisseire, University of Montpellier II, France
Pascal Poncelet, Ecole des Mines d’Alès, France

Soft Computing for XML Data Mining

K. G. Srinivasa, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India
K. R. Venugopal, Bangalore University, India
L. M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India

Soft Subspace Clustering for High-Dimensional Data

Liping Jing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Michael K. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Joshua Zhexue Huang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Spatio-Temporal Data Mining for Air Pollution Problems

Seoung Bum Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Chivalai Temiyasathit, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Sun-Kyoung Park, North Central Texas Council of Governments, USA
Victoria C.P. Chen, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Spectral Methods for Data Clustering

Wenyuan Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Stages of Knowledge Discovery in E-Commerce Sites

Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University, USA
Matthew Smith, Brigham Young University, USA

Statistical Data Editing

Claudio Conversano, University of Cagliari, Italy
Roberta Siciliano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Statistical Metadata Modeling and Transformations

Maria Vardaki, University of Athens, Greece

Statistical Models for Operational Risk

Concetto Elvio Bonafede, University of Pavia, Italy

Statistical Web Object Extraction

Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Storage Systems for Data Warehousing

Alexander Thomasian, New Jersey Institute of Technology - NJIT, USA
José F. Pagán, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Subgraph Mining

Ingrid Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Thorsten Meinl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Subsequence Time Series Clustering

Jason R. Chen, Australian National University, Australia

Summarization in Pattern Mining

Mohammad Al Hasan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Supporting Imprecision in Database Systems

Ullas Nambiar, IBM India Research Lab, India

Survey of Feature Selection Techniques, A

Barak Chizi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Lior Rokach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Oded Maimon, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Survival Data Mining

Qiyang Chen, Montclair State University, USA
Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA
Ruben Xing, Montclair State University, USA
Richard Peterson, Montclair StateUniversity, USA

Symbiotic Data Miner

Kuriakose Athappilly, Haworth College of Business, USA
Alan Rea, Western Michigan University, USA

Tabu Search for Variable Selection in Classification

Silvia Casado Yusta, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Joaquín Pacheco Bonrostro, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Laura Nuñez Letamendía, Instituto de Empresa, Spain

Techniques for Weighted Clustering Ensembles

Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA
Muna Al-Razgan, George Mason University, USA

Temporal Event Sequence Rule Mining

Sherri K. Harms, University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA

Temporal Extension for a Conceptual Multidimensional Model

Elzbieta Malinowski, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Text Categorization

Megan Chenoweth, Innovative Interfaces, Inc, USA
Min Song, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Temple University, USA

Text Mining by Pseudo-Natural Language Understanding

Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Text Mining for Business Intelligence

Konstantinos Markellos, University of Patras, Greece
Penelope Markellou, University of Patras, Greece
Giorgos Mayritsakis, University of Patras, Greece
Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of Messolongi and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Athanasios Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece

Text Mining Methods for Hierarchical Document Indexing

Han-Joon Kim, The University of Seoul, Korea

Theory and Practice of Expectation Maximization (EM) Algorithm

Chandan K. Reddy, Wayne State University, USA
Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University, USA

Time-Constrained Sequential Pattern Mining

Ming-Yen Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Topic Maps Generation by Text Mining

Hsin-Chang Yang, Chang Jung University, Taiwan, ROC
Chung-Hong Lee, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan, ROC

Transferable Belief Model

Philippe Smets, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Tree and Graph Mining

Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Dimitrios Katsaros, Aristotle University, Greece

Uncertainty Operators in a Many-Valued Logic

Herman Akdag, University Paris6, France
Isis Truck, University Paris VIII, France

User-Aware Multi-Agent System for Team Building, A

Pasquale De Meo, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Diego Plutino, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Giovanni Quattrone, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Domenico Ursino, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Using Dempster-Shafer Theory in Data Mining

Malcolm J. Beynon, Cardiff University, UK

Using Prior Knowledge in Data Mining

Francesca A. Lisi, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy

Utilizing Fuzzy Decision Trees in Decision Making

Malcolm J. Beynon, Cardiff University, UK

Variable Length Markov Chains for Web Usage Mining

José Borges, University of Porto, Portugal
Mark Levene, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Vertical Data Mining on Very Large Data Sets

William Perrizo, North Dakota State University, USA
Qiang Ding, Chinatelecom Americas, USA
Qin Ding, East Carolina University, USA
Taufik Abidin, North Dakota State University, USA

Video Data Mining

JungHwan Oh, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
JeongKyu Lee, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Sae Hwang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

View Selection in Data Warehousing and OLAP: A Theoretical Review

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Visual Data Mining from Visualization to Visual Information Mining

Herna L Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada

Visualization of High-Dimensional Data with Polar Coordinates

Frank Rehm, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdenburg, Germany

Visualization Techniques for Confidence Based Data

Andrew Hamilton-Wright, University of Guelph, Canada, & Mount Allison University, Canada
Daniel W. Stashuk, University of Waterloo, Canada

Web Design Based On User Browsing Patterns

Yinghui Yang, University of California, Davis, USA

Web Mining in Thematic Search Engines

Massimiliano Caramia, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Giovanni Felici, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica IASI-CNR, Italy

Web Mining Overview

Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA

Web Page Extension of Data Warehouses

Anthony Scime, State University of New York College at Brockport, USA

Web Usage Mining with Web Logs

Xiangji Huang, York University, Canada
Aijun An, York University, Canada; Yang Liu, York University, Canada

Wrapper Feature Selection

Kyriacos Chrysostomou, Brunel University, UK
Manwai Lee, Brunel University, UK
Sherry Y. Chen, Brunel University, UK
Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, UK

XML Warehousing and OLAP

Hadj Mahboubi, University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France
Marouane Hachicha, University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France
Jérôme Darmont, University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France

XML-Enabled Association Analysis

Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China