Pattern Detection and Discovery: ESF Exploratory Workshop, London, UK, September 16-19, 2002.

The collation of large electronic databases of scientific and commercial infor— tion has led to a dramatic growth of interest in methods for discovering struc— res in such databases. These methods often go under the general name of data mining. One important subdiscipline within data mining is concerned with the identification and detection of anomalous, interesting, unusual, or valuable — cords or groups of records, which we call patterns. Familiar examples are the detection of fraud in cr...