Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Technologies Dav d Tan ar Monash Un vers ty, Austral a IGIP IGI PublIshInG Hershey • New York Acquisition Editor: Senior Managing Editor: Managing Editor: Development Editor: Copy Editor: Typesetter: Cover Design: Printed at: Kristin Klinger Jennifer Neidig Sara Reed Kristin Roth Larissa Vinci Larissa Vinci Lisa Tosheff Yurchak Printing Inc. Published in the United States of America by IGI Publishing (an imprint of IGI Global) 701 E. Chocolate Avenue Hershey PA 17033 Tel: 717-533-8845 Fax: 717-533-8661 E-mail:
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