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DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY HANDBOOK
edited by
Oded Maimon and Lior Rokach
Tel-Aviv University, Israel

ISBN-10: 0-387-24435-2

e-ISBN-10: 0-387-25465-X

ISBN-13:

e-ISBN-13: 9-780-387-25465-4

Printed on acid-free paper.

All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden.

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Printed in the United States of America.

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To our families
-Oded Maimon
-Lior Rokach

Contributing Authors

Maria M. Abad
Software Engineering Department,
University of Granada, Spain

Bruno Agard
D partement de Math matiques et de G nie Industriel,
cole Polytechnique de Montr al, Canada

Daniel Barbara
Department of Information and Software Engineering,
George Mason University,...