2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining: Icdm 2002 9-12 December 2002 Maebashi City, Japan : Proceedings

Consists of 72 full papers and 49 short papers from the December 2002 conference on the design, analysis, and implementation of data mining theory, systems, and applications. Topics of the full papers include evolutionary time series segmentation for stock data mining, cluster merging and splitting in hierarchical clustering algorithms, linear causal model discovery using the MML criterion, and computing frequent graph patterns from semistructured data. Among the topics of the short papers are wavelet-based UXO detection, mining a set or coregulated RNA sequences, the performance of classifiers for rare classes, and mining surveillance video for independent motion detection. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)