**Meet the editor**

Dr Adem Karahoca received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Software Engineering from Istanbul University. His research interests and expertise include mobile telecommunication software, data mining, management information systems, bioinformatics, information systems, business intelligence, computers in

education, and human computer interaction. He has written 26 IT related books and book chapters. He has supervised different variety of IT research and application projects. He is currently working on data mining applications in medicine.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Knowledge Discovery 1** 

Chapter 2 **Selecting Representative Data Sets 43** 

Chapter 3 **Similarity Measures and Dimensionality** 

Chapter 4 **Data Mining and Neural Networks:** 

Chapter 5 **Inconsistent Decision System:** 

Andrea Cannata and Alfredo Pulvirenti

**The Impact of Data Representation 97** 

Mohammad Lutfi Othman and Ishak Aris

Xingping Wen and Xiaofeng Yang

Emerson Rabelo and Clélia Franco

**for Large-Scale Data Mining 181**  Kohsuke Yanai and Toshihiko Yanase

Chapter 8 **Analysis and Learning Frameworks** 

Chapter 1 **Towards the Formulation of a Unified Data Mining Theory,** 

**Implemented by Means of Multiagent Systems (MASs) 3**  Dost Muhammad Khan, Nawaz Mohamudally and D. K. R. Babajee

Tomas Borovicka, Marcel Jirina Jr., Pavel Kordik and Marcel Jirina

**Reduction Techniques for Time Series Data Mining 71** 

Fadzilah Siraj, Ehab A. Omer A. Omer and Md. Rajib Hasan

**Rough Set Data Mining Strategy to Extract Decision Algorithm of a Numerical Distance Relay – Tutorial 117** 

**Remote Sensing Image Based on Spectral Data Mining 143** 

**in the Process of Knowledge Discovery in Data Base? 155** 

Chapter 6 **An Unsupervised Classification Method for Hyperspectral** 

Chapter 7 **Visualization Techniques: Which is the Most Appropriate** 

Maria Madalena Dias, Juliana Keiko Yamaguchi,

Carmelo Cassisi, Placido Montalto, Marco Aliotta,
