Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2004 [electronic resource] : 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004, Proceedings /

Invited Papers -- Random Matrices in Data Analysis -- Data Privacy -- Breaking Through the Syntax Barrier: Searching with Entities and Relations -- Real-World Learning with Markov Logic Networks -- Strength in Diversity: The Advance of Data Analysis -- Contributed Papers -- Mining Positive and Negative Association Rules: An Approach for Confined Rules -- An Experiment on Knowledge Discovery in Chemical Databases -- Shape and Size Regularization in Expectation Maximization and Fuzzy Clustering -- Combining Multiple Clustering Systems -- Reducing Data Stream Sliding Windows by Cyclic Tree-Like Histograms -- A Framework for Data Mining Pattern Management -- Spatial Associative Classification at Different Levels of Granularity: A Probabilistic Approach -- AutoPart: Parameter-Free Graph Partitioning and Outlier Detection -- Properties and Benefits of Calibrated Classifiers -- A Tree-Based Approach to Clustering XML Documents by Structure -- Discovery of Regulatory Connections in Microarray Data -- Learning from Little: Comparison of Classifiers Given Little Training -- Geometric and Combinatorial Tiles in 0–1 Data -- Document Classification Through Interactive Supervision of Document and Term Labels -- Classifying Protein Fingerprints -- Finding Interesting Pass Patterns from Soccer Game Records -- Discovering Unexpected Information for Technology Watch -- Scalable Density-Based Distributed Clustering -- Summarization of Dynamic Content in Web Collections -- Mining Thick Skylines over Large Databases -- Ensemble Feature Ranking -- Privately Computing a Distributed k-nn Classifier -- Incremental Nonlinear PCA for Classification -- A Spectroscopy of Texts for Effective Clustering -- Constraint-Based Mining of Episode Rules and Optimal Window Sizes -- Analysing Customer Churn in Insurance Data – A Case Study -- Nomograms for Visualization of Naive Bayesian Classifier -- Using a Hash-Based Method for Apriori-Based Graph Mining -- Evaluation of Rule Interestingness Measures with a Clinical Dataset on Hepatitis -- Classification in Geographical Information Systems -- Digging into Acceptor Splice Site Prediction: An Iterative Feature Selection Approach -- Itemset Classified Clustering -- Combining Winnow and Orthogonal Sparse Bigrams for Incremental Spam Filtering -- Asynchronous and Anticipatory Filter-Stream Based Parallel Algorithm for Frequent Itemset Mining -- A Quantification of Cluster Novelty with an Application to Martian Topography -- Density-Based Spatial Clustering in the Presence of Obstacles and Facilitators -- Text Mining for Finding Functional Community of Related Genes Using TCM Knowledge -- Dealing with Predictive-but-Unpredictable Attributes in Noisy Data Sources -- A New Scheme on Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining -- Posters -- A Unified and Flexible Framework for Comparing Simple and Complex Patterns -- Constructing (Almost) Phylogenetic Trees from Developmental Sequences Data -- Learning from Multi-source Data -- The Anatomy of SnakeT: A Hierarchical Clustering Engine for Web-Page Snippets -- COCOA: Compressed Continuity Analysis for Temporal Databases -- Discovering Interpretable Muscle Activation Patterns with the Temporal Data Mining Method -- A Tolerance Rough Set Approach to Clustering Web Search Results -- Improving the Performance of the RISE Algorithm -- Mining History of Changes to Web Access Patterns -- Demonstration Papers -- Visual Mining of Spatial Time Series Data -- Detecting Driving Awareness -- An Effective Recommender System for Highly Dynamic and Large Web Sites -- SemanticTalk: Software for Visualizing Brainstorming Sessions and Thematic Concept Trails on Document Collections -- Orange: From Experimental Machine Learning to Interactive Data Mining -- Terrorist Detection System -- Experimenting SnakeT: A Hierarchical Clustering Engine for Web-Page Snippets -- HIClass: Hyper-interactive Text Classification by Interactive Supervision of Document and Term Labels -- Balios – The Engine for Bayesian Logic Programs -- SEWeP: A Web Mining System Supporting Semantic Personalization -- SPIN! Data Mining System Based on Component Architecture.