Relational Data Mining

Prof. Dr. Nada Lavrac heads the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jo ef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. She is the author and editor of several books and proceedings in the field of data mining and machine learning, and she has chaired or served on the boards of the main related journals and conferences. Her research interests include machine learning, data mining, and inductive logic programming, and related applications in medicine, public health, bioinformatics, and the management of virtual enterprises. In 1997 she was awarded the Ambassador of Science of Slovenia prize, and in 2007 she was elected as an ECCAI Fellow.

I. Introduction.- 1. Data Mining in a Nutshell.- 2. Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Overview.- 3. An Introduction to Inductive Logic Programming.- 4. Inductive Logic Programming for Knowledge Discovery in Databases.- II. Techniques.- 5. Three Companions for Data Mining in First Order Logic.- 6. Inducing Classification and Regression Trees in First Order Logic.- 7. Relational Rule Induction with CProgol4.4: A Tutorial Introduction.- 8. Discovery of Relational Association Rules.- 9. Distance Based Approaches to Relational Learning and Clustering.- III. From Propositional to Relational Data Mining.- 10. How to Upgrade Propositional Learners to First Order Logic: A Case Study.- 11. Propositionalization Approaches to Relational Data Mining.- 12. Relational Learning and Boosting.- 13. Learning Probabilistic Relational Models.- IV. Applications and Web Resources.- 14. Relational Data Mining Applications: An Overview.- 15. Four Suggestions and a Rule Concerning the Application of ILP.- 16. Internet Resources on ILP for KDD.- Author Index.

From the reviews:

"The book is a collection of contributions from several authors who worked in the field. It provides quite an extensive overview of different techniques and strategies used in knowledge discovery from multi-relational data, and describes several interesting applications. ... the book may stimulate the interest for practical applications of relational data mining and further research in the development of relational data mining techniques." (Marco Botta, Computer Bulletin, Vol. 46 (1), 2003)

"It is very important to describe the intersection for data mining carefully. The presented book Relational Data Mining is doing this. The authors are well known researchers in the field. ... The book is recommended warmly to students of computer science and mathematics and practitioners who have to deal with data mining in relational data bases." (W. Gerhardt, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1003, 2003)