Download or read book Introduction to Data Mining and its Applications written by S. Sumathi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concepts of data mining and data warehousing, a promising and flourishing frontier in database systems, and presents a broad, yet in-depth overview of the field of data mining. Data mining is a multidisciplinary field, drawing work from areas including database technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge based systems, knowledge acquisition, information retrieval, high performance computing and data visualization.