Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Current Issues and New Applications

The Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000) was held at the Keihanna-Plaza, Kyoto, Japan, April 18 - 20, 2000. PAKDD 2000 provided an international forum for researchers and applica­ tion developers to share their original research results and practical development experiences. A wide range of current KDD topics were covered including ma­ chine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, soft comp