Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook

* Covers over 25 new topics, as well as most updated information on topics presented in first edition Includes over 30 new world wide contributors, who are experts in this field New case studies introduced based on real world examples * Knowledge Discovery demonstrates intelligent computing at its best, and is the most desirable and interesting end-product of Information Technology. To be able to discover and to extract knowledge from data is a task that many researchers and practitioners are endeavoring to ac complish. There is a lot of hidden knowledge waiting to be discovered – this is the challenge created by today’s abundance of data. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, 2nd Edition organizes the most current concepts, theories, standards, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) into a coherent and unified repository. This handbook first surveys, then provides comprehensive yet concise algorithmic descriptions of methods, including classic methods plus the extensions and novel methods developed recently. This volume concludes with in-depth descriptions of data mining applications in various interdisciplinary industries including finance, marketing, medicine, biology, engineering, telecommunications, software, and security. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, 2nd Edition is designed for research scientists, libraries and advanced-level students in computer science and engineering as a reference. This handbook is also suitable for professionals in industry, for computing applications, information systems management, and strategic research management. Content Level » Research Keywords » Bayesian networks - KDD - algorithm - data mining - data mining applications - decision trees - ensemble method - knowledge discovery - large datasets - preprocessing method - soft computing method - statistical method - text mining - web mining