Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining

The series Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining is composed of blindrefereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining. This serieswill be targeted both at the academic community as well as the businesspractitioner.Data mining seeks to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of statistical and mathematicaltechniques. The knowledge is extracted form this data by examining the patterns of the data whether they beassociations of groups or things predictions sequential relationships between time order events or naturalgroups.Data mining applications are seen in finance (banking brokerage insurance) marketing (customer relationshipsretailing logistics travel) as well as in manufacturing health care fraud detection home-land security and lawenforcement.