Successes and New Directions in Data Mining Florent Masseglia Project AxIS-INRIA, France Pascal Poncelet Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France Maguelonne Teisseire Universite Montpellier, France Information science reference Hershey • New York Acquisitions Editor: Development Editor: Editorial Assistants: Senior Managing Editor: Managing Editor: Copy Editor: Typesetter: Cover Design: Printed at: Kristin Klinger Kristin Roth Jessica Thompson and Ross Miller Jennifer Neidig Sara Reed April Schmidt Jamie Snavely Lisa Tosheff Yurchak Printing Inc. Published in the United States of America by Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global) 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200 Hershey PA 17033 Tel: 717-533-8845 Fax: 717-533-8661 E-mail:
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