Data Mining

Section 1: Advances in data mining An approach to finding reduced sets of information features describing discrete objects based on rough sets theory; Neural network modeling of the nonlinear dynamic structural offshore system with hysteresis; Fast outlier detection using rough sets theory; A fully sensitive correlation measure for data mining; Generalized k-means algorithm on nominal dataset; Flexible database transformation for XML-RDBMS; A rules reduction algorithm based on significance measure; Can the wavelet-kernel methodology improve other kernel techniques?; Mining spatial and temporal data to classify water quality: a case study Section 2: Text mining Cluster analysis in document networks; Two novel term weighting for text categorization; Finding the real subject: the application of categorisation methods to forum messages; Kohonen self-organising maps in the data mining of wine taster comments; Searching for innovation through a convergent technology e-science network approach Section 3: Business and socioeconomic applications Constructing social and economic indicators for EU countries using dynamic classification: case studies; Model of location for service station; Knowledge discovery for CRM improvement; Financial performance of air transport companies: an analysis of the non-Pareto-efficient space in data envelopment analysis; Benford's Law, data mining, and financial fraud: a case study in New York State Medicaid data; A semi-deterministic ensemble strategy for imbalanced datasets (SDEID) applied to bankruptcy prediction; Fuzzy Multicriteria analysis for evaluation of risks in complex engineering projects in the Aeronautical industry; An intelligent decision support system for bridge safety assessment based on Data Mining models Section 4: Security applications Online Police Station, a cutting edge service against cybercrime; A data system for the security and tracking of goods containers; Link mining for contextual prioritization of tactical information; Duo-mining with multi-agents: the next wave to control organised crime; Selective alerts for runtime protection of distributed systems