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Companion chapters on advanced data mining. Chapters 8 to 10 of the second
edition of the book, which cover mining complex data types, are available on the
book’s web sites for readers who are interested in learning more about such advanced
topics, beyond the themes covered in this book.
Instructors’ manual. This complete set of answers to the exercises in the book is
available only to instructors from the publisher’s web site.
Course syllabi and lecture plans. These are given for undergraduate and graduate
versions of introductory and advanced courses on data mining, which use the text
and slides.
Supplemental reading lists with hyperlinks. Seminal papers for supplemental read-
ing are organized per chapter.
Links to data mining data sets and software. We provide a set of links to
data mining data sets and sites that contain interesting data mining software
packages, such as IlliMine from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(http://illimine.cs.uiuc.edu).
Sample assignments, exams, and course projects. A set of sample assignments,
exams, and course projects is available to instructors from the publisher’s web site.
Figures from the book. This may help you to make your own slides for your
classroom teaching.
Contents of the book in PDF format.
Errata on the different printings of the book. We encourage you to point out any
errors in this book. Once the error is confirmed, we will update the errata list and
include acknowledgment of your contribution.
Comments or suggestions can be sent to hanj@cs.uiuc.edu. We would be happy to hear
from you.
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Acknowledgments
Third Edition of the Book
We would like to express our grateful thanks to all of the previous and current mem-
bers of the Data Mining Group at UIUC, the faculty and students in the Data and
Information Systems (DAIS) Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and many friends and colleagues, whose
constant support and encouragement have made our work on this edition a rewarding
experience. We would also like to thank students in CS412 and CS512 classes at UIUC of
the 2010–2011 academic year, who carefully went through the early drafts of this book,
identified many errors, and suggested various improvements.
We also wish to thank David Bevans and Rick Adams at Morgan Kaufmann Publish-
ers, for their enthusiasm, patience, and support during our writing of this edition of the
book. We thank Marilyn Rash, the Project Manager, and her team members, for keeping
us on schedule.
We are also grateful for the invaluable feedback from all of the reviewers. Moreover,
we would like to thank U.S. National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and Natural Science and Engineer-
ing Research Council of Canada (NSERC), as well as IBM Research, Microsoft Research,
Google, Yahoo! Research, Boeing, HP Labs, and other industry research labs for their
support of our research in the form of research grants, contracts, and gifts. Such research
support deepens our understanding of the subjects discussed in this book. Finally, we
thank our families for their wholehearted support throughout this project.
Second Edition of the Book
We would like to express our grateful thanks to all of the previous and current mem-
bers of the Data Mining Group at UIUC, the faculty and students in the Data and
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Acknowledgments
Information Systems (DAIS) Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and many friends and colleagues, whose
constant support and encouragement have made our work on this edition a rewarding
experience. These include Gul Agha, Rakesh Agrawal, Loretta Auvil, Peter Bajcsy, Geneva
Belford, Deng Cai, Y. Dora Cai, Roy Cambell, Kevin C.-C. Chang, Surajit Chaudhuri,
Chen Chen, Yixin Chen, Yuguo Chen, Hong Cheng, David Cheung, Shengnan Cong,
Gerald DeJong, AnHai Doan, Guozhu Dong, Charios Ermopoulos, Martin Ester, Chris-
tos Faloutsos, Wei Fan, Jack C. Feng, Ada Fu, Michael Garland, Johannes Gehrke, Hector
Gonzalez, Mehdi Harandi, Thomas Huang, Wen Jin, Chulyun Kim, Sangkyum Kim,
Won Kim, Won-Young Kim, David Kuck, Young-Koo Lee, Harris Lewin, Xiaolei Li,
Yifan Li, Chao Liu, Han Liu, Huan Liu, Hongyan Liu, Lei Liu, Ying Lu, Klara Nahrstedt,
David Padua, Jian Pei, Lenny Pitt, Daniel Reed, Dan Roth, Bruce Schatz, Zheng Shao,
Marc Snir, Zhaohui Tang, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Josep Torrellas, Peter Tzvetkov,
Benjamin W. Wah, Haixun Wang, Jianyong Wang, Ke Wang, Muyuan Wang, Wei Wang,
Michael Welge, Marianne Winslett, Ouri Wolfson, Andrew Wu, Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin,
Xifeng Yan, Jiong Yang, Xiaoxin Yin, Hwanjo Yu, Jeffrey X. Yu, Philip S. Yu, Maria
Zemankova, ChengXiang Zhai, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Wei Zou.
Deng Cai and ChengXiang Zhai have contributed to the text mining and Web mining
sections, Xifeng Yan to the graph mining section, and Xiaoxin Yin to the multirela-
tional data mining section. Hong Cheng, Charios Ermopoulos, Hector Gonzalez, David
J. Hill, Chulyun Kim, Sangkyum Kim, Chao Liu, Hongyan Liu, Kasif Manzoor, Tianyi
Wu, Xifeng Yan, and Xiaoxin Yin have contributed to the proofreading of the individual
chapters of the manuscript.
We also wish to thank Diane Cerra, our Publisher at Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
for her constant enthusiasm, patience, and support during our writing of this book. We
are indebted to Alan Rose, the book Production Project Manager, for his tireless and
ever-prompt communications with us to sort out all details of the production process.
We are grateful for the invaluable feedback from all of the reviewers. Finally, we thank
our families for their wholehearted support throughout this project.
First Edition of the Book
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all those who have worked or are
currently working with us on data mining–related research and/or the DBMiner project,
or have provided us with various support in data mining. These include Rakesh Agrawal,
Stella Atkins, Yvan Bedard, Binay Bhattacharya, (Yandong) Dora Cai, Nick Cercone,
Surajit Chaudhuri, Sonny H. S. Chee, Jianping Chen, Ming-Syan Chen, Qing Chen,
Qiming Chen, Shan Cheng, David Cheung, Shi Cong, Son Dao, Umeshwar Dayal,
James Delgrande, Guozhu Dong, Carole Edwards, Max Egenhofer, Martin Ester, Usama
Fayyad, Ling Feng, Ada Fu, Yongjian Fu, Daphne Gelbart, Randy Goebel, Jim Gray,
Robert Grossman, Wan Gong, Yike Guo, Eli Hagen, Howard Hamilton, Jing He, Larry
Henschen, Jean Hou, Mei-Chun Hsu, Kan Hu, Haiming Huang, Yue Huang, Julia Itske-
vitch, Wen Jin, Tiko Kameda, Hiroyuki Kawano, Rizwan Kheraj, Eddie Kim, Won Kim,
Krzysztof Koperski, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Vipin Kumar, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Joyce