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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. These include Gul Agha, Rakesh Agrawal, Loretta Auvil, Peter Bajcsy, Geneva
Belford, Deng Cai, Y. Dora Cai, Roy Cambell, Kevin C.-C. Chang, Surajit Chaudhuri,
Chen Chen, Yixin Chen, Yuguo Chen, Hong Cheng, David Cheung, Shengnan Cong,
Gerald DeJong, AnHai Doan, Guozhu Dong, Charios Ermopoulos, Martin Ester, Chris-
tos Faloutsos, Wei Fan, Jack C. Feng, Ada Fu, Michael Garland, Johannes Gehrke, Hector
Gonzalez, Mehdi Harandi, Thomas Huang, Wen Jin, Chulyun Kim, Sangkyum Kim,
Won Kim, Won-Young Kim, David Kuck, Young-Koo Lee, Harris Lewin, Xiaolei Li,
Yifan Li, Chao Liu, Han Liu, Huan Liu, Hongyan Liu, Lei Liu, Ying Lu, Klara Nahrstedt,
David Padua, Jian Pei, Lenny Pitt, Daniel Reed, Dan Roth, Bruce Schatz, Zheng Shao,
Marc Snir, Zhaohui Tang, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Josep Torrellas, Peter Tzvetkov,
Benjamin W. Wah, Haixun Wang, Jianyong Wang, Ke Wang, Muyuan Wang, Wei Wang,
Michael Welge, Marianne Winslett, Ouri Wolfson, Andrew Wu, Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin,
Xifeng Yan, Jiong Yang, Xiaoxin Yin, Hwanjo Yu, Jeffrey X. Yu, Philip S. Yu, Maria
Zemankova, ChengXiang Zhai, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Wei Zou.
Deng Cai and ChengXiang Zhai have contributed to the text mining and Web mining
sections, Xifeng Yan to the graph mining section, and Xiaoxin Yin to the multirela-
tional data mining section. Hong Cheng, Charios Ermopoulos, Hector Gonzalez, David
J. Hill, Chulyun Kim, Sangkyum Kim, Chao Liu, Hongyan Liu, Kasif Manzoor, Tianyi
Wu, Xifeng Yan, and Xiaoxin Yin have contributed to the proofreading of the individual
chapters of the manuscript.
We also wish to thank Diane Cerra, our Publisher at Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
for her constant enthusiasm, patience, and support during our writing of this book. We
are indebted to Alan Rose, the book Production Project Manager, for his tireless and
ever-prompt communications with us to sort out all details of the production process.
We are grateful for the invaluable feedback from all of the reviewers. Finally, we thank
our families for their wholehearted support throughout this project.

First Edition of the Book
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all those who have worked or are
currently working with us on data mining–related research and/or the DBMiner project,
or have provided us with various support in data mining. These include Rakesh Agrawal,
Stella Atkins, Yvan Bedard, Binay Bhattacharya, (Yandong) Dora Cai, Nick Cercone,
Surajit Chaudhuri, Sonny H. S. Chee, Jianping Chen, Ming-Syan Chen, Qing Chen,
Qiming Chen, Shan Cheng, David Cheung, Shi Cong, Son Dao, Umeshwar Dayal,
James Delgrande, Guozhu Dong, Carole Edwards, Max Egenhofer, Martin Ester, Usama
Fayyad, Ling Feng, Ada Fu, Yongjian Fu, Daphne Gelbart, Randy Goebel, Jim Gray,
Robert Grossman, Wan Gong, Yike Guo, Eli Hagen, Howard Hamilton, Jing He, Larry
Henschen, Jean Hou, Mei-Chun Hsu, Kan Hu, Haiming Huang, Yue Huang, Julia Itske-
vitch, Wen Jin, Tiko Kameda, Hiroyuki Kawano, Rizwan Kheraj, Eddie Kim, Won Kim,
Krzysztof Koperski, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Vipin Kumar, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Joyce