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New Publication from CRC Press Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applications
Edited by Sugato Basu, Ian Davidson, and Kiri L. Wagstaff

A volume in the Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

Series edited by Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

From the Foreword:

"... this book shows how constrained clustering can be used to tackle large problems involving textual, relational, and even video data. After reading this book, you will have the tools to be a better analyst [and] to gain more insight from your data, whether it be textual, audio, video, relational, genomic, or anything else."

Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA

Since the initial work on constrained clustering, there have been numerous advances in methods, applications, and our understanding of the theoretical properties of constraints and constrained clustering algorithms. Bringing these developments together, Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applications presents an extensive collection of the latest innovations in clustering data analysis methods that use background knowledge encoded as constraints.

With contributions from industrial researchers and leading academic experts who pioneered the field, this volume delivers thorough coverage of the capabilities and limitations of constrained clustering methods as well as introduces new types of constraints and clustering algorithms.

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Catalog no. C9969, July 2008, c. 456 pp., ISBN: 978-1-58488-996-0, $79.95 / �41.99  $63.96/�33.59

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