Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases

The interconnected ideas of inductive databases and constraint-based mining are appealing and have the potential to radically change the theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery. This book reports on the results of the European IST project "cInQ" (consortium on knowledge discovery by Inductive Queries) and its final workshop entitled Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases organized in Hinterzarten, Germany in March 2004.

The 18 articles in this state-of-the-art survey present the latest results in inductive querying and constraint-based data mining and also identify future directions of this newly emerging field lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The papers address topical sections on foundations of inductive database frameworks, optimizing inductive queries on local patterns, optimizing inductive queries on global patterns, and applications of inductive querying techniques.