Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining Volume 4

<p><br></p><p> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The series </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining</em> is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining. This series will be targeted both at the academic community as well as the business practitioner.</p><p>Data mining seeks to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of statistical and mathematical techniques. The knowledge is extracted from this data by examining the patterns of the data whether they be associations of groups or things predictions sequential relationships between time order events or natural groups.</p><p>Data mining applications are in business (banking brokerage and insurance) marketing (customer relationship retailing logistics and travel) as well as in manufacturing health care fraud detection homeland security and law enforcement.</p><p><br></p>