This book provides a comprehensive account of important knowledge and technological innovations in the field of data mining. Building on the considerable comprehensiveness of the first edition, the second edition presents the latest research in the field, such as mining stream, time-ordered, and sequential data as well as mining time-space, multimedia, text, and Web data. This book serves as a must-read for teachers, researchers, and developers in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

The 1st edition of this book was a popular data mining monograph and is an excellent readable textbook. The 2nd edition has been enriched with topics on new developments in research in the field of data mining, and several chapters describing the latest data mining methods have been added. This book is suitable as an elective textbook for senior undergraduates of computer and related majors in colleges and universities, and is especially suitable as a professional textbook for graduate students.