• First title to ever present soft computing approaches and their application in data mining, along with the traditional hard-computing approaches
• Addresses the principles of multimedia data compression techniques (for image, video, text) and their role in data mining
• Discusses principles and classical algorithms on string matching and their role in data mining

About the Author
SUSHMITA MITRA, PHD, is a Professor at Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, in Calcutta. She is a coauthor of Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing, also published by Wiley.

TINKU ACHARYA, PHD, Senior Executive vice president and Chief Science Officer of Avisere Inc., Tucson, Arizona, is involved in multimedia data mining applications. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University. He was recognized as the Most Prolific Inventor of Intel Corporation Worldwide in 1999.

Reviews
"...an excellent primer on the subject of data mining with an accessible introduction to the fundamental and advanced data mining technologies." (Journal of Electronic Imaging, January-March 2006)

"Applied statisticians and probabilists will like this book very much." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, November 2005)

"...the book is an impressive and broad overview...a general roadmap of what methods are available and where to look." (Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2005)

"This readable survey describes multimedia, soft computing, and bioinformatics strategies for a number of data types..." (Business Horizons, September- October 2004)

"...an accessible introduction to fundamental and advanced data mining technologies. It will be an excellent book for both beginners and professionals." (Computing Reviews.com, April 20, 2004)

"Overall, this is a nice, easy-to-read book for those already working in the area of data mining." (Technometrics, August 2004, Vol. 46, No. 3)

Book Information
ISBN 9780471460541
Author Sushmita Mitra
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint Wiley-Interscience
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 724g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 161mm * 25mm