Practical Applications of Data Mining

Foreword

Amazing growth in the generation of data and information requires amazing

techniques and methodologies to deal with it. Among many approaches to

exert an intellectual control over this growth, data mining shines as one of

the most successful techniques. It is of a class of techniques that can be con-

sidered a significant part of the general area of computational intelligence.

The impact of the printing press was immense due to the fact that it

allowed storing concepts and notions in a static form for the generations to

come. Humanity, insofar as scientific achievements, did not accomplished

any significant progress until its advent ...