* First title to ever present soft computing approaches and theirapplication in data mining, along with the traditionalhard-computing approaches
* Addresses the principles of multimedia data compressiontechniques (for image, video, text) and their role in datamining
* Discusses principles and classical algorithms on stringmatching and their role in data mining
Sushmita Mitra
Computer Science Data Mining Database & Data Warehousing Technologies Datenbanken u. Data Warehousing Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Informatik Intelligent Systems & Agents Intelligente Systeme u. Agenten
"...an excellent primer on the subject of data mining with anaccessible introduction to the fundamental and advanced data miningtechnologies." (Journal of Electronic Imaging, January-March2006)
"Applied statisticians and probabilists will like this book verymuch." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation,November 2005)
"...the book is an impressive and broad overview...a generalroadmap of what methods are available and where to look."(Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2,2005)
"This readable survey describes multimedia, soft computing, andbioinformatics strategies for a number of data types..."(Business Horizons, September- October 2004)
"...an accessible introduction to fundamental and advanceddata mining technologies. It will be an excellent book for bothbeginners and professionals." (Computing Reviews.com, April20, 2004)
"Overall, this is a nice, easy-to-read book for those alreadyworking in the area of data mining." (Technometrics, August2004, Vol. 46, No. 3)
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