Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nanjing, China in May 2007. The 34 revised full papers and 92 revised short papers presented together with 4 keynote talks or extended abstracts thereof were carefully reviewed and selected from 730 submissions. The papers are devoted to new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, machine learning, databases, statistics, data warehousing, data visualization, automatic scientific discovery, knowledge acquisition and knowledge-based systems.