文档介绍：puting for
Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining
edited by
Oded Maimon
Tel-Aviv University
Israel
and
Lior Rokach
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel
Oded Maimon Lior Rokach
Tel Aviv University Ben-Gurion University
Industrial Engineering Dept. of Information System Engineering
69978 TEL-AVIV 84105 BEER-SHEVA
ISRAEL ISRAEL
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puting for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Edited by Oded Maimon and Lior Rokach
ISBN 978-0-387-69934-9 e-ISBN 978-0-387-69935-6
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To my family
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To my wife Ronit, and my two boys, Yarden and Roy
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Preface
The information age has made it easy to store large amounts of data. Data
mining is a new and exciting field that tries to solve the crisis of information
overload by exploring large plex bodies of data in order to discover
useful patterns. It is extreme importance because it enables modeling and
knowledge extraction from abundance data availability. Therefore theoreti-
cians and practitioners are continually seeking techniques to