Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery : Second European Symposium

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, PKDD 98, held in Nantes, France, in September 1998.
The volume presents 26 revised papers corresponding to the oral presentations given at the conference; also included are refereed papers corresponding to the 30 poster presentations. These papers were selected from a total of 73 full draft submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rule evaluation, visualization, association rules and text mining, KDD process and software, tree construction, sequential and spatial data mining, and attribute selection.