SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, June 2006

• Gabor Melli, Osmar R. Zaïane, Brendan Kitts:
  Introduction to the special issue on successful real-world data mining applications. 1-2
  
• R. Bharat Rao, Sriram Krishnan, Radu Stefan Niculescu:
  Data mining for improved cardiac care. 3-10
  
• Dave DeBarr, Zachary Eyler-Walker:
  Closing the gap: automated screening of tax returns to identify egregious tax shelters. 11-16
  
• Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Jianping Zhang:
  Blocking objectionable web content by leveraging multiple information sources. 17-26
  
• Edmund Freeman, Gabor Melli:
  Championing of an LTV model at LTC. 27-32
  
• Yiannis Kanellopoulos, Thimios Dimopulos, Christos Tjortjis, Christos Makris:
  Mining source code elements for comprehending object-oriented systems and evaluating their maintainability. 33-40
  
• Rayid Ghani, Katharina Probst, Yan Liu, Marko Krema, Andrew E. Fano:
  Text mining for product attribute extraction. 41-48
  
• Sung Ho Ha, Sang-Chan Park:
  Service quality improvement through business process management based on data mining. 49-56
  
• Pramod Singh, A. Charles Thomas, Ariel Sepulveda:
  Market basket recommendations for the HP SMB store. 57-64
  
• Carlos André R. Pinheiro, Alexandre Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken:
  Revenue recovering with insolvency prevention on a Brazilian telecom operator. 65-70
  
• Frank Lemke, Emilio Benfenati, Johann-Adolf Müller:
  Data-driven modeling and prediction of acute toxicity of pesticide residues. 71-79
  
• Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Naren Ramakrishnan, Madhav V. Marathe:
  Spatial data mining to support pandemic preparedness. 80-82
  
• Ronald K. Pearson:
  The problem of disguised missing data. 83-92
  
• Sadok Ben Yahia, Tarek Hamrouni, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo:
  Frequent closed itemset based algorithms: a thorough structural and analytical survey. 93-104
  

Volume 8, Number 2, December 2006

• Chih Lai, Taras Rafa, Dwight E. Nelson:
  Mining motion patterns using color motion map clustering. 3-10
  
• Kun Liu, Kanishka Bhaduri, Kamalika Das, Phuong Nguyen, Hillol Kargupta:
  Client-side web mining for community formation in peer-to-peer environments. 11-20
  
• Jian Xu, Wei Wang, Jian Pei, Xiaoyuan Wang, Baile Shi, Ada Wai-Chee Fu:
  Utility-based anonymization for privacy preservation with less information loss. 21-30
  
• Gary M. Weiss, Ye Tian:
  Maximizing classifier utility when training data is costly. 31-38
  
• Terran Lane, R. Bharat Rao, Jinbo Bi, Jianming Liang, Marcos Salganicoff:
  On the medical frontier: the 2006 KDD Cup competition and results. 39-46
  
• Robert M. Bell, Patrick Haffner, Chris Volinsky:
  Modifying boosted trees to improve performance on task 1 of the 2006 KDD challenge cup. 47-52
  
• Domonkos Tikk, Zsolt Tivadar Kardkovács, Ferenc Szidarovszky:
  Voting with a parameterized veto strategy: solving the KDD Cup 2006 problem by means of a classifier committee. 53-62
  
• William Perrizo, Amal Perera:
  Parameter optimized, vertical, nearest-neighbor-vote and boundary-based classification. 63-69
  
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chabane Djeraba, Lise Getoor, Robert Grossman, Ronen Feldman, Mohammed Javeed Zaki:
  What are the grand challenges for data mining?: KDD-2006 panel report. 70-77
  
• Mohammed J. Zaki, George Karypis, Jiong Yang:
  BIOKDD06: data mining in Bioinformatics. 78
  
• Rayid Ghani, Carlos Soares:
  Data mining for business applications: KDD-2006 workshop. 79-81
  
• Robert L. Grossman:
  KDD workshop on data mining standards, services & platforms (DM-SSP) 2006. 82-83
  
• Olfa Nasraoui, Myra Spiliopoulou, Jaideep Srivastava, Bamshad Mobasher, Brij M. Masand:
  WebKDD 2006: web mining and web usage analysis post-workshop report. 84-89
  
• K. P. Unnikrishnan, Naren Ramakrishnan, P. S. Sastry, Ramasamy Uthurusamy:
  Network reconstruction from dynamic data. 90-91
  
• Zhongfei Zhang, Florent Masseglia, Ramesh Jain, Alberto Del Bimbo:
  KDD/MDM 2006: The 7^th KDD Multimedia Data Mining workshop report. 92-95
  
• Tao Li, Chang-Shing Perng:
  KDD-2006 workshop report: Theory and Practice of Temporal Data Mining. 96-97
  
• Bianca Zadrozny, Gary M. Weiss, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky:
  UBDM 2006: Utility-Based Data Mining 2006 workshop report. 98-101
  
• Maria E. Orlowska, Xingzhi Sun, Xue Li:
  Can exclusive clustering on streaming data be achieved? 102-108