More and more application domains, from financial market analysis to weatherprediction, from monitoring supermarket purchases to monitoring satellite images, arebecomingly increasingly data-intensive. The result is massive databases that are growingat a rapid rate - it has been estimated that...

Organizations are taking advantage of quot;data-miningquot; techniques to leverage the vast amounts ofdata captured as they process routine transactions. Data-mining is the process of discoveringhidden structure or patterns in data. However several of the pattern discovery methods in...