There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Karl Marx A Universial Genius of the 19th Century Many scientists from all over the world during the past two years since the MLDM 2007 have come along on the stony way to the sunny summit of science and have worked hard on new ideas and applications in the area of data mining in pattern r- ognition. Our thanks go to all those who took part in this year's MLDM. We appre- ate their submissions and the ideas shared with the Program Committee....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2011, held in New York, USA in September 2011.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining in medicine and agriculture, data mining in marketing, data mining for Industrial processes and in telecommunication, Multimedia Data Mining, theoretical aspects of data mining, Data Warehousing, WebMining and Information Mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2011, held in New York, NY, USA.The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on classification and decision theory, theory of learning, clustering, appilication in medicine, Webmining and information mining; and machine learning and image mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2013, held in New York, USA in July 2013. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 212 submissions. The papers cover the topics ranging from theoretical topics for classification, clustering, association rule and pattern mining to specific data mining methods for the different multimedia data types such as image mining, text mining, video mining and web mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2013, held in New York, NY, in July 2013. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The topics range from theoretical aspects of data mining to applications of data mining, such as in multimedia data, in marketing, finance and telecommunication, in medicine and agriculture, and in process control, industry and society.