Encyclopedia of DataWarehousing and Mining

Second Edition

John WangMontclair State University, USA

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Editorial Advisory Board

Huan LiuArizona State University, USA

Sach MukherjeeUniversity of Oxford, UK

Alan OppenheimMontclair State University, USA

Marco RamoniHarvard University, USA

Mehran SahamiStanford University, USA

Alexander TuzhilinNew York University, USA

Ning ZhongMaebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Zhi-Hua ZhouNanjing University, China

List of Contributors

Abdulghani, Amin A. / Data Mining Engineer, USA .....................................................................................286, 519Abidin, Taufik / North Dakota State University, USA ..........................................................................................2036Agard, Bruno / cole Polytechnique de Montral, Canada ................................................................................1292Agresti, William W. / Johns Hopkins University, USA...........................................................................................676Ameur, Esma / Universit de Montral, Canada ..................................................................................................388Akdag, Herman / University Paris VI, France ....................................................................................................1997Alhajj, Reda / University of Calgary, Canada .......................................................................................................531Al-Razgan, Muna / George Mason University, USA ............................................................................................1916Alshalalfa, Mohammed / University of Calgary, Canada .....................................................................................531An, Aijun / York University, Canada ............................................................................................................196, 2096Angiulli, Fabrizio / University of Calabria, Italy .................................................................................................1483Antoniano, Isadora / IIMAS-UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico ..........................................................................1623Arslan, Abdullah N. / University of Vermont, USA ................................................................................................964Artz, John M. / The George Washington University, USA .....................................................................................382Ashrafi, Mafruz Zaman / Monash University, Australia.......................................................................................695Athappilly, Kuriakose / Western Michigan University, USA .................................................................................1903Babu, V. Suresh / Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India ......................................................................1708Bali, Rajeev K. / Coventry University, UK ...........................................................................................................1538Banerjee, Protima / Drexel University, USA ........................................................................................................1765Bartk, Vladimr / Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic ......................................................................689Batista, Beln Melin / Universidad de La Laguna, Spain ..................................................................................1200Baxter, Ryan E. / The Pennsylvania State University, USA ...................................................................................802Bell, David / Queens University, UK .................................................................................................................... 1117Bellatreche, Ladjel / Poitiers University, France ................................................................................171, 920, 1546Ben-Abdallah, Hanne / Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia ........................................................... 110Besemann, Christopher / North Dakota State University, USA ..............................................................................87Betz, Andrew L. / Progressive Insurance, USA ....................................................................................................1558Beynon, Malcolm J. / Cardiff University, UK ........................................................................ 1034, 1102, 2011, 2024Bhatnagar, Shalabh / Indian Institute of Science, India ...................................................................................... 1511Bhatnagar, Vasudha / University of Delhi, India .................................................................................................1337Bickel, Steffan / Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Germany ................................................................................1262Bohanec, Marko / Joef Stefan Institute, Slovenia .................................................................................................617Bonafede, Concetto Elvio / University of Pavia, Italy .........................................................................................1848Bonchi, Francesco / ISTI-C.N.R, Italy ....................................................................................................................313Bonrostro, Joaqun Pacheco / Universidad de Burgos, Spain ............................................................................1909Borges, Jos / School of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal ......................................................................2031Borges, Thyago / Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil......................................................................................1243Bose, Indranil / The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ..................................................................................883

Bouchachia, Abdelhamid / University of Klagenfurt, Austria ................................................................... 1006, 1150Bouguettaya, Athman / CSIRO ICT Center, Australia ..........................................................................................237Boukraa, Doulkifli / University of Jijel, Algeria ..................................................................................................1358Bousoo-Calzn, Carlos / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain....................................................................993Boussaid, Omar / University Lumire Lyon, France ............................................................................................1358Brazdil, Pavel / University of Porto, Portugal .....................................................................................................1207Brena, Ramon F. / Tecnolgico de Monterrey, Mexco ........................................................................................1310Brown, Marvin L. / Grambling State University, USA ..........................................................................................999Bruha, Ivan / McMaster University, Canada .........................................................................................................795Buccafurri, Francesco / DIMET, Universit di Reggio Calabria, Italy ....................................................................976Burr, Tom / Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA .......................................................................................219, 465Butler, Shane M. / Monash University, Australia.................................................................................................1282Buttler, David J. / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA .................................................................... 1194Cadot, Martine / University of Henri Poincar/LORIA, Nancy, France .................................................................94Cameron, William / Villanova University, USA .....................................................................................................120Caminiti, Gianluca / DIMET, Universit di Reggio Calabria, Italy .........................................................................976Camps-Valls, Gustavo / Universitat de Valncia, Spain ................................................................51, 160, 993, 1097Caragea, Doina / Kansas State University, USA .................................................................................................. 1110Caramia, Massimiliano / University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy ....................................................................2080Cardenas, Alfonso F. / University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, USA .................................................................... 1194Cardoso, Jorge / SAP AG, Germany ....................................................................................................................1489Cassel, Lillian / Villanova University, USA ............................................................................................................120Castejn-Limas, Manuel / University of Len, Spain ...........................................................................................400Cerchiello, Paola / University of Pavia, Italy .........................................................................................................394Chakravarty, Indrani / Indian Institute of Technology, India ...................................................................1431, 1456Chalk, Alistair Morgan / Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffths University, Australia ......160Chan, Christine W. / University of Regina, Canada ..............................................................................................353Chan, Stephen C. F. / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR ...............................................1794Chaovalitwongse, Art / Rutgers University, USA ..................................................................................................729Chen, Jason / Australian National University, Australia .....................................................................................1871Chen, Jian / Tsinghua University, China ................................................................................................................374Chen, Qiyang / Montclair State University, USA .................................................................................................1897Chen, Sherry Y. / Brunel University, UK .............................................................................................................2103Chen, Victoria C.P. / The University of Texas at Arlington, USA ........................................................................1815Chen, Yu / State University of New York - Binghamton, USA ................................................................................701Chen, Shaokang / NICTA, Australia ............................................................................................................1659, 1689Chenoweth, Megan / Innovative Interfaces, Inc, USA .........................................................................................1936Cheng, Shouxian / Planet Associates, Inc., USA ....................................................................................................870Chew, Peter A. / Sandia National Laboratories, USA ..........................................................................................1380Chizi, Barak / Tel-Aviv University, Israel .............................................................................................................1888Christodoulakis, Stavros / Technical University of Crete, Greece ......................................................................1771Chrysostomou, Kyriacos / Brunel University, UK ..............................................................................................2103Chundi, Parvathi / University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA ...............................................................................1753Chung, Seokkyung / University of Southern California, USA .............................................................................1013Ciampi, Antonio / Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada ...........................................................1623Csaro, Sandra Elizabeth Gonzlez / Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina ..............................................................................................................................................................58Cocu, Adina / Dunarea de Jos University, Romania ............................................................................................83Conversano, Claudio / University of Cagliari, Italy ....................................................................................624, 1835Cook, Diane J. / University of Texas at Arlington, USA .........................................................................................943Cook, Jack / Rochester Institute of Technology, USA .............................................................................................783

Cooper, Colin / Kings College, UK ......................................................................................................................1653Crabtree, Daniel / Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ......................................................................752Craciun, Marian / Dunarea de Jos University, Romania ....................................................................................83Cuzzocrea, Alfredo / University of Calabria, Italy ..................................................................367, 1439, 1575, 2048Dai, Honghua / Deakin University, Australia .......................................................................................................1019Dang, Xuan Hong / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ......................................................................901Dardzinska, Agnieszka / Bialystok Technical University, Poland .......................................................................1073Darmont, Jrme / University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France ...........................................................................2109Das, Gautam / The University of Texas at Arlington, USA ...................................................................................1702Dasu, Tamraparni / AT&T Labs, USA .................................................................................................................1248De Meo, Pasquale / Universit degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy .....................................1346, 2004de Vries, Denise / Flinders University, Australia .................................................................................................. 1158del Castillo, M Dolores / Instituto de Automtica Industrial (CSIC), Spain ................................................445, 716Delve, Janet / University of Portsmouth, UK ..........................................................................................................987Deng, Ping / University of Illinois at Springfield, USA .............................................................................................1617Denoyer, Ludovic / University of Paris VI, France ..............................................................................................1779Denton, Anne / North Dakota State University, USA .......................................................................................87, 258Dhaenens, Clarisse / University of Lille, France ...................................................................................................823Ding, Gang / Olympus Communication Technology of America, Inc., USA ...........................................................333Ding, Qiang / Chinatelecom Americas, USA ........................................................................................................2036Ding, Qin / East Carolina University, USA ...................................................................................................506, 2036Doloc-Mihu, Anca / University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA ..........................................................................1330Domeniconi, Carlotta / George Mason University, USA ................................................................. 1142, 1170, 1916Dominik, Andrzej / Warsaw University of Technology, Poland .............................................................................202Dorado, Julin / University of A Corua, Spain ....................................................................................................829Dorn, Maryann / Southern Illinois University, USA ............................................................................................1639Drew, James H. / Verizon Laboratories, USA ......................................................................................................1558Dumitriu, Luminita / Dunarea de Jos University, Romania ...............................................................................83Ester, Martin / Simon Fraser University, Canada .................................................................................................970Estivill-Castro, Vladimir / Griffith University, Australia .................................................................................... 1158Faber, Niels R. / University of Groningen, The Netherlands ................................................................................1589Faloutsos, Christos / Carnegie Mellon University, USA ........................................................................................646Fan, Weiguo / Virginia Tech, USA ..........................................................................................................................120Fan, Xinghua / Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China .......................................208, 1216Feki, Jamel / Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia .............................................................................. 110Felici, Giovanni / Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica IASI-CNR, Italy ................................................2080Feng, Ling / Tsinghua University, China .............................................................................................................. 2117Figini, Silvia / University of Pavia, Italy ................................................................................................................431Fischer, Ingrid / University of Konstanz, Germany ....................................................................................1403, 1865Fox, Edward A. / Virginia Tech, USA .....................................................................................................................120Franois, Damien / Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium ...........................................................................878Freitas, Alex A. / University of Kent, UK ...............................................................................................................932Friedland, Lisa / University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ..................................................................................39Fu, Li-Min / Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA ................................................................1224Fung, Benjamin C. M. / Concordia University, Canada .......................................................................................970Gallinari, Patrick / University of Paris VI, France .............................................................................................1779Gama, Joo / University of Porto, Portugal ................................................................................................. 561, 1137Gambs, Sbastien / Universit de Montral, Canada ............................................................................................388Gao, Kehan / Eastern Connecticut State University, USA......................................................................................346Gargouri, Faiez / Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia ....................................................................... 110Gehrke, Johannes / Cornell University, USA .........................................................................................................192

Geller, James / New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA .....................................................................................1463Giraud-Carrier, Christophe / Brigham Young University, USA ....................................................... 511, 1207, 1830Giudici, Paolo / University of Pavia, Italy ..............................................................................................................789Golfarelli, Matteo / University of Bologna, Italy ...................................................................................................838Gonzlez-Marcos, Ana / University of Len, Spain ...............................................................................................400Greenidge, Charles / University of the West Indies, Barbados ......................................................................18, 1727Griffiths, Benjamin / Cardiff University, UK .......................................................................................................1034Grzes, Marek / University of York, UK .................................................................................................................937Grzymala-Busse, Jerzy / University of Kansas, USA ..........................................................................................1696Gunopulos, Dimitrios / University of California, USA ........................................................................................ 1170Gupta, P. / Indian Institute of Technology, India ........................................................................................1431, 1456Gupta, S. K. / IIT, Delhi, India .............................................................................................................................1337Guru, D. S. / University of Mysore, India .............................................................................................................1066Hachicha, Marouane / University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France ........................................................................2109Hamel, Lutz / University of Rhode Island, USA ...........................................................................................598, 1316Hamilton-Wright, Andrew / University of Guelph, Canada, & Mount Allison University, Canada .............1646, 2068Han, Shuguo / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ............................................................................1741Handley, John C. / Xerox Innovation Group, USA .................................................................................................278Harms, Sherri K. / University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA ..............................................................................1923Harrison, Ryan / University of Calgary, Canada ...................................................................................................531Hasan, Mohammad Al / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA .........................................................................1877Haupt, Bernd J. / The Pennsylvania State University, USA ...................................................................................802Holder, Lawrence B. / University of Texas at Arlington, USA ...............................................................................943Honavar, Vasant / Iowa State University, USA .................................................................................................... 1110Hong, Yu / ColgatePalmolive Company, USA ......................................................................................................580Hou, Wen-Chi / Southern Illinois University, USA ..............................................................................................1639Hsu, William H. / Kansas State University, USA ...........................................................................................817, 926Hu, Xiaohua / Drexel University, USA .................................................................................................................1765Huang, Chun-Che / National Chi Nan University, Taiwan ......................................................................................31Huang, Joshua Zhexue / The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong .........................................................246, 1810Huang, Xiangji / York University, Canada ...........................................................................................................2096Huang, Wenxue / Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada .............................................................66Hllermeier, Eyke / Philipps-Universitt Marburg, Germany ..............................................................................907Hwang, Sae / University of Texas at Arlington, USA ............................................................................................2042Hwang, Seung-won / Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea.................................1570Iglesias, ngel / Instituto de Automtica Industrial (CSIC), Spain ........................................................................445Im, Seunghyun / University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA ..............................................................................361Ito, Takao / Ube National College of Technology, Japan .......................................................................................654Janardan, Ravi / University of Minnesota, USA ....................................................................................................166Jensen, Richard / Aberystwyth University, UK ......................................................................................................556Jing, Liping / Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ......................................................................................1810Jourdan, Laetitia / University of Lille, France ......................................................................................................823Jun, Jongeun / University of Southern California, USA ......................................................................................1013Juntunen, Arla / Helsinki School of Economics/Finlands Government Ministry of the Interior, Finland ............183Kambhamettu, Chandra / University of Delaware, USA ....................................................................................1091Kamel, Magdi / Naval Postgraduate School, USA .................................................................................................538Kanapady, Ramdev / University of Minnesota, USA .............................................................................................450Kashevnik, Alexey / St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia ..................................................................................................................................................320Katsaros, Dimitrios / Aristotle University, Greece ..............................................................................................1990Kaur, Sharanjit / University of Delhi, India ........................................................................................................1476

Kelly, Maurie Caitlin / The Pennsylvania State University, USA ..........................................................................802Keogh, Eamonn / University of California - Riverside, USA .................................................................................278Kern-Isberner, Gabriele / University of Dortmund, Germany ............................................................................1257Khoo, Siau-Cheng / National University of Singapore, Singapore ......................................................................1303Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M. / Florida Atlantic University, USA .................................................................................346Khoury, Imad / School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada ..............................................................1623Kianmehr, Keivan / University of Calgary, Canada ..............................................................................................531Kickhfel, Rodrigo Branco / Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil ..................................................................1243Kim, Han-Joon / The University of Seoul, Korea ................................................................................................1957Kim, Seoung Bum / The University of Texas at Arlington, USA ..................................................................863, 1815Kim, Soo / Montclair State University, USA .................................................................................................406, 1759Klawonn, Frank / University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany ........................214, 2062Koeller, Andreas / Montclair State University, USA ............................................................................................1053Kontio, Juha / Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland ............................................................................1682Koren, Yehuda / AT&T Labs - Research, USA .......................................................................................................646Kothari, Megha / St. Peters University, Chennai, India .......................................................................................810Kotis, Konstantinos / University of the Aegean, Greece ......................................................................................1532Kou, Gang / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China .................................................1386Kouris, Ioannis N. / University of Patras, Greece ...........................................................................1425, 1470, 1603Kretowski, Marek / Bialystok Technical University, Poland .................................................................................937Krneta, Milorad / Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada ............................................................66Kroeze, Jan H. / University of Pretoria, South Africa ............................................................................................669Kros, John F. / East Carolina University, USA ......................................................................................................999Kruse, Rudolf / University of Magdenburg, Germany .........................................................................................2062Kryszkiewicz, Marzena / Warsaw University of Technology, Poland .................................................................1667Ku, Wei-Shinn / Auburn University, USA ..............................................................................................................701Kumar, Sudhir / Arizona State University, USA ....................................................................................................166Kumar, Vipin / University of Minnesota, USA .....................................................................................................1505Kumara, Soundar R.T. / The Pennsylvania State University, USA .......................................................................497Lachiche, Nicolas / University of Strasbourg, France .........................................................................................1675Lau, Yiu Ki / The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ......................................................................................883Lax, Gianluca / DIMET, Universit di Reggio Calabria, Italy ..................................................................................976Lazarevic, Aleksandar / United Technologies Research Center, USA ...........................................................450, 479Lee, Chung-Hong / National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan, ROC ....................................1979Lee, JeongKyu / University of Texas at Arlington, USA.......................................................................................2042Lee, Manwai / Brunel University, UK ..................................................................................................................2103Lee, Wang-Chien / Pennsylvania State University, USA .......................................................................................251Lee, Vincent / Monash University, Australia ................................................................................................901, 1524Lee, Zu-Hsu / Montclair State University, USA .....................................................................................................580Lehto, Mark R. / Purdue University, USA .............................................................................................................133Letamenda, Laura Nuez / Instituto de Empresa, Spain ...................................................................................1909Leung, Cane W. K. / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR .................................................1794Leung, Carson Kai-Sang / The University of Manitoba, Canada .........................................................................307Leung, Chung Man Alvin / The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ...............................................................883Levary, Reuven R. / Saint Louis University, USA ..................................................................................................586Levashova, Tatiana / St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia ..................................................................................................................................................320Levene, Mark / Birkbeck, University of London, UK .............................................................................................2031Lewis, Rory A. / UNC-Charlotte, USA ...................................................................................................................857Li, Gary C. L. / University of Waterloo, Canada .................................................................................................1497Li, Haiquan / The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc, USA ...........................................................................683

Li, Jinyan / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ...................................................................................683Li, Mei / Microsoft Corporation, USA ....................................................................................................................251Li, Qi / Western Kentucky University, USA ...........................................................................................................1091Li, Tao / School of Computer Science Florida International University, USA .......................................................264Li, Wenyuan / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .............................................................................1823Li, Xiongmin / University of Regina, Canada ........................................................................................................353Li, Xueping / University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA ............................................................................................12Li, Yinghong / University of Air Force Engineering, China...................................................................................744Li, Yuefeng / Queensland University of Technology, Australia ..............................................................................592Li, Yufei / University of Air Force Engineering, China ..........................................................................................744Li, Xiao-Li / Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore ....................................................................................1552Liberati, Diego / Italian National Research Council, Italy ..........................................................................438, 1231Licthnow, Daniel / Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil ...................................................................................1243Lim, Ee-Peng / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ...............................................................................76Lin, Beixin (Betsy) / Montclair State University, USA ...........................................................................................580Lin, Li-Chun / Montclair State University, USA ..........................................................................................406, 1759Lin, Ming-Yen / Feng Chia University, Taiwan ...................................................................................................1974Lin, Shu-Chiang / Purdue University, USA ............................................................................................................133Lin, Tsau Young / San Jose State University, USA ...............................................................................................1830Lin, Wen-Yang / National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan ...............................................................................1268Lin, Limin / Generation5 Mathematical Technologies, Inc., Canada ......................................................................66Lindell, Yehuda / Bar-Ilan University, Israel .......................................................................................................1747Ling, Charles X. / The University of Western Ontario, Canada ............................................................................339Lisi, Francesca A. / Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy .....................................................................................2019Liu, Chang-Chia / University of Florida, USA ......................................................................................................729Liu, Huan / Arizona State University, USA ..............................................................................178, 1041, 1058, 1079Liu, Xiaohui / Brunel University, UK ...................................................................................................................2103Liu, Yang / York University, Canada .....................................................................................................................2096Lo, David / National University of Singapore, Singapore ....................................................................................1303Lo, Victor S.Y. / Fidelity Investments, USA ..........................................................................................................1409Loh, Stanley / Catholic University of Pelotas & Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil ......................................1243Lovell, Brian C. / The University of Queensland, Australia ......................................................................1659, 1689Lu, Ruqian / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ..............................................................................................1942Luterbach, Jeremy / University of Calgary, Canada.............................................................................................531Lutu, Patricia E.N. / University of Pretoria, South Africa .....................................................................................604Ma, Qingkai / Utica College, USA .......................................................................................................................1617Ma, Sheng / Machine Learning for Systems IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA ...........................................264Maceli, Monica / Drexel University, USA ...............................................................................................................631Maguitman, Ana / Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina ..............................................................................1310Mahboubi, Hadj / University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), France ................................................................................2109Maimon, Oded / Tel-Aviv University, Israel .........................................................................................................1888Maitra, Anutosh / Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India ...............544Maj, Jean-Baptiste / LORIA/INRIA, France ............................................................................................................94Makedon, Fillia / University of Texas at Arlington, USA .....................................................................................1236Makris, Christos H. / University of Patras, Greece .............................................................................................1470Malinowski, Elzbieta / Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica ..........................................................293, 849, 1929Malthouse, Edward C. / Northwestern University, USA .......................................................................................225Mani, D. R. / Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, USA ...........................................1558Manolopoulos, Yannis / Aristotle University, Greece ..........................................................................................1990Mansmann, Svetlana / University of Konstanz, Germany ...................................................................................1439Markellos, Konstantinos / University of Patras, Greece .....................................................................................1947Markellou, Penelope / University of Patras, Greece ...........................................................................................1947Marmo, Roberto / University of Pavia, Italy ......................................................................................................... 411

Martnez-Ramn, Manel / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain ..........................................................51, 1097Mruter, Laura / University of Groningen, The Netherlands ............................................................................1589Masseglia, Florent / INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France ................................................................................1275, 1800Mathieu, Richard / Saint Louis University, USA ...................................................................................................586Mattfeld, Dirk C. / University of Braunschweig, Germany .................................................................................1046Matthee, Machdel C. / University of Pretoria, South Africa .................................................................................669Mayritsakis, Giorgos / University of Patras, Greece ...........................................................................................1947McGinnity, T. Martin / University of Ulster at Magee, UK ................................................................................ 1117McLeod, Dennis / University of Southern California, USA .................................................................................1013Meinl, Thorsten / University of Konstanz, Germany ...........................................................................................1865Meisel, Stephan / University of Braunschweig, Germany ....................................................................................1046Mishra, Nilesh / Indian Institute of Technology, India ...............................................................................1431, 1456Mitra, Amitava / Auburn University, USA .............................................................................................................566Mobasher, Bamshad / DePaul University, USA...................................................................................................2085Mohania, Mukesh / IBM India Research Lab, India ...........................................................................................1546Moon, Seung Ki / The Pennsylvania State University, USA...................................................................................497Morantz, Brad / Science Applications International Corporation, USA ...............................................................301Morency, Catherine / cole Polytechnique de Montral, Canada ......................................................................1292Moreno-Vega, Jos Marcos / Universidad de La Laguna, Spain ........................................................................1200Moturu, Sai / Arizona State University, USA .......................................................................................................1058Mukherjee, Sach / University of Oxford, UK .......................................................................................................1390Murie, Carl / McGill University and Genome Qubec Innovation Centre, Canada ............................................1623Murty, M. Narasimha / Indian Institute of Science, India ............................................................... 1511, 1517, 1708Muruzbal, Jorge / University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain ........................................................................................836Muslea, Ion / SRI International, USA .........................................................................................................................6Nabli, Ahlem / Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia ........................................................................... 110Nadon, Robert / McGill University and Genome Qubec Innovation Centre, Canada .......................................1623Nambiar, Ullas / IBM India Research Lab, India .................................................................................................1884Nayak, Richi / Queensland University of Technology, Australia ...........................................................................663Ng, Michael K. / Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong .................................................................................1810Ng, See-Kiong / Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore ..............................................................................1552Ng, Wee-Keong / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ................................................76, 901, 1741, 1823Ngo, Minh Ngoc / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .......................................................................1610Nguyen, Hanh H. / University of Regina, Canada .................................................................................................353Nicholson, Scott / Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USA .........................................................153Nie, Zaiqing / Microsoft Research Asia, China ....................................................................................................1854Nigro, Hctor Oscar / Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina ..........................58Nugent, Chris / University of Ulster, UK................................................................................................................777Oh, Cheolhwan / Purdue University, USA ........................................................................................................... 1176Oh, JungHwan / University of Texas at Arlington, USA ......................................................................................2042Oliveira, Stanley R. 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Contentsby Volume

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................................................................................................ 1

Active Learning with Multiple Views / Ion Muslea, SRI International, USA ..................................................... 6

Adaptive Web Presence and Evolution through Web Log Analysis / Xueping Li, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA ................................................................................................................................................... 12

Aligning the Warehouse and the Web / Hadrian Peter, University of the West Indies, Barbados; Charles Greenidge, University of the West Indies, Barbados ............................................................................ 18

Analytical Competition for Managing Customer Relations / Dan Zhu, Iowa State University, USA ............... 25

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 ............................. 31

Anomaly Detection for Inferring Social Structure / Lisa Friedland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ..................................................................................................................................................... 39

Application of Data-Mining to Recommender Systems, The / J. Ben Schafer, University of Northern Iowa, USA ..................................................................................................................... 45

Applications of Kernel Methods / Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de Valncia, Spain; Manel Martnez-Ramn, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Jos Luis Rojo-lvarez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain ............................................................................................................................... 51

Architecture for Symbolic Object Warehouse / Sandra Elizabeth Gonzlez Csaro, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hctor Oscar Nigro, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina ............................................................................ 58

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 ................................................................................................................................................ 66

Association Rule Hiding Methods / Vassilios S. Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece .............................. 71

Association Rule Mining / Yew-Kwong Woon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ......................................................................................................................................... 76

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 .................................................... 83

Association Rule Mining of Relational Data / Anne Denton, North Dakota State University, USA; Christopher Besemann, North Dakota State University, USA ........................................................................... 87

Association Rules and Statistics / Martine Cadot, University of Henri Poincar/LORIA, Nancy, France; Jean-Baptiste Maj, LORIA/INRIA, France; Tarek Ziad, NUXEO, France ...................................................... 94

Audio and Speech Processing for Data Mining / Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark ................... 98

Audio Indexing / Gal Richard, Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Tlcommunications (TELECOM ParisTech), France ...................................................................................................................... 104

Automatic Data Warehouse Conceptual Design Approach, An / Jamel FEKI, Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia; Ahlem Nabli, Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia; Hanne Ben-Abdallah, Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia; Faiez Gargouri, Mir@cl Laboratory, Universit de Sfax, Tunisia .......................................................................................................... 110

Automatic Genre-Specific Text Classification / Xiaoyan Yu, Virginia Tech, USA; Manas Tungare, Virginia Tech, USA; Weiguo Fan, Virginia Tech, USA; Manuel Prez-Quiones, Virginia Tech, USA; Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA; William Cameron, Villanova University, USA; USA; Lillian Cassel, Villanova University, USA ..............................................