Advances in data mining

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2008, held in Leipzig, Germany in July 2008.The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on lifescience and biotechnological applications for data mining, clustering and classification, association rule mining, e-mail, Web mining, information retrieval, industrial applications, frequent item set, sequence mining, and aspects of data mining.