A volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining Series Editors Kenneth D. Lawrence, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Ronald K. Klimberg, Saint Joseph's University The series, Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining, is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining. This series will be targeted both at the academic community, as well as the business practitioner. Data mining seeks to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of statistical and mathematical techniques. The knowledge is extracted from this data by examining the...

A volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining Series Editors Kenneth D. Lawrence, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Ronald K. Klimberg, Saint Joseph's University The series, Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining, is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining. This series will be targeted both at the academic community, as well as the business practitioner. Data mining seeks to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of statistical and mathematical techniques. The knowledge is extracted from this data by examining the...