Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 11th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2007, Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nanjing, China in May 2007.

The 34 revised full papers and 92 revised short papers presented together with four keynote talks or extended abstracts thereof were carefully reviewed and selected from 730 submissions. The papers are devoted to new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, machine learning, databases, statistics, data warehousing, data visualization, automatic scientific discovery, knowledge acquisition and knowledge-based systems.

Written for: Researchers and professionals

Keywords: Web data mining, algorithmic learning, ant colony optimization, association rule mining, biomedical data analysis, classification, clustering, computer security, data analysis, data mining, feature selection, image segmentation, information extraction, knowledge discovery, learning classifier systems, machine learning, privacy, qualitative reasoning, random forest, rough sets, statistical learning, support vector machines, text mining, text summarization, workflow mining