by
Changjie TangChangjie Tang

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2008, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2008.

The 35 revised full papers and 43 revised short papers presented together with the abstract of 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers focus on advancements in data mining and peculiarities and challenges of real world applications using data mining and feature original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems, and different applied disciplines with potential in data mining.