This two-volume set, LNAI 9651 and 9652, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2016, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2016.

The 91 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification; machine learning; applications; novel methods and algorithms; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; clustering; feature extraction and pattern mining; graph and network data; spatiotemporal and image data; anomaly...

This two-volume set, LNAI 9651 and 9652, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2016, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2016.

The 91 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification; machine learning; applications; novel methods and algorithms; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; clustering; feature extraction and pattern mining; graph and network data; spatiotemporal and image data; anomaly...

Encouraging Words for Discouraging Times Everyone needs to be encouraged every day The bottom falls out from underneath, what do you do? The foundation that was unshakable quickly begins to shake. Hopes and dreams begin to shatter. Relationships become strained, unstable or disappear. Will ends ever meet? Who can be trusted now? Well, Encouraging Words for Discouraging Times was written with you in mind. To take an honest assessment and make an honest change requires a search of heart and a willingness to change. This search can be the beginning of getting through those discouraging times....