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Acknowledgments

Third Edition of the Book
We would like to express our grateful thanks to all of the previous and current mem-
bers of the Data Mining Group at UIUC, the faculty and students in the Data and
Information Systems (DAIS) Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and many friends and colleagues, whose
constant support and encouragement have made our work on this edition a rewarding
experience. We would also like to thank students in CS412 and CS512 classes at UIUC of
the 2010–2011 academic year, who carefully went through the early drafts of this book,
identified many errors, and suggested various improvements.
We also wish to thank David Bevans and Rick Adams at Morgan Kaufmann Publish-
ers, for their enthusiasm, patience, and support during our writing of this edition of the
book. We thank Marilyn Rash, the Project Manager, and her team members, for keeping
us on schedule.
We are also grateful for the invaluable feedback from all of the reviewers. Moreover,
we would like to thank U.S. National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and Natural Science and Engineer-
ing Research Council of Canada (NSERC), as well as IBM Research, Microsoft Research,
Google, Yahoo! Research, Boeing, HP Labs, and other industry research labs for their
support of our research in the form of research grants, contracts, and gifts. Such research
support deepens our understanding of the subjects discussed in this book. Finally, we
thank our families for their wholehearted support throughout this project.

Second Edition of the Book

We would like to express our grateful thanks to all of the previous and current mem-
bers of the Data Mining Group at UIUC, the faculty and students in the Data and

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