Advances in Data Mining: Applications in E-Commerce, Medicine, and Knowledge Management / Edition 1

by Petra Perner

Overview

This book presents papers describing selected projects on the topic of data mining in fields like e commerce, medicine, and knowledge management. The objective is to report on current results and at the same time to give a review on the present activities in this field in Germany. An effort has been made to include the latest scientific results, as well as lead the reader to the various fields of activity and the problems related to them. Knowledge discovery on the basis of web data is a wide and fast growing area. E commerce is the principal theme of motivation in this field, as companies invest large sums in the electronic market, in order to maximize their profits and minimize their risks. Other applications are telelearning, teleteaching, service support, and citizen information systems. Concerning these applications, there is a great need to understand and support the user by means of recommendation systems, adaptive information systems, as well as by personalization. In this respect Giudici and Blanc present in their paper procedures for the generation of associative models from the tracking behavior of the user. Perner and Fiss present in their paper a strategy for intelligent e marketing with web mining and personalization. Methods and procedures for the generation of associative rules are presented in the paper by Hipp, Güntzer, and Nakhaeidizadeh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540441168
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/03/2002
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2394
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Data Mining and E-commerce.- Sequence Rules for Web Clickstream Analysis.- Data Mining of Association Rules and the Process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.- Intelligent E-marketing with Web Mining, Personalization, and User-Adpated Interfaces.- Knowledge Management and Data Mining.- The indiGo Project: Enhancement of Experience Management and Process Learning with Moderated Discourses.- Medical Applications.- Genomic Data Explosion — The Challenge for Bioinformatics?.- Case-Based Reasoning for Prognosis of Threatening Influenza Waves.