SIGKDD

ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

July 2009, Volume 11, Issue 1

Guest Editor	Editor-In-Chief	Associate Editor
Robert L. Grossman University of Illinois at Chicago grossman at uic.edu	Osmar R. Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada zaiane at cs.ualberta.ca	Charu Aggarwal IBM T.J. Watson Research Center charu at us.ibm.com
		Bart Goethals University of Antwerp bart.goethals at ua.ac.be

Letter from the editor-in-chief

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Osmar R. Zaiane

Special Issue: Open Source Analytics

Open Source Analytics: An Introduction to the Special Issue

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Robert L. Grossman

What is Analytic Infrastructure and Why Should You Care?

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Robert L. Grossman

The WEKA Data Mining Software: An Update

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Mark Hall, Eibe Frank, Geoffrey Holmes, Bernhard Pfahringer, Peter Reutemann, Ian H. Witten

What.s PMML and What.s New in PMML 4.0?

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Rick Pechter

KNIME . The Konstanz Information Miner

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Michael R. Berthold, Nicolas Cebron, Fabian Dill, Thomas R. Gabriel, Tobias Koetter, Thorsten Meinl, Peter Ohl, Kilian Thiel and Bernd Wiswedel

Efficient Deployment of Predictive Analytics through Open Standards and Cloud Computing

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Alex Guazzelli, Kostantinos Stathatos, Michael Zeller

Development and User Experiences of an Open Source Data Cleaning, Deduplication and Record Linkage System

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Peter Christen

Reports

Challenging Research Issues in Data Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval

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Aparna S. Varde

PhD Dissertation Abstracts

Correlation Clustering

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Arthur Zimek

Adaptive Learning and Mining for Data Streams and Frequent Patterns

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Albert Bifet

Mining Concise Representations of Frequent Patterns through Conjunctive and Disjunctive Search Spaces

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Tarek Hamrouni