Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2000, held in Lyon, France in September 2000.;The 86 revised papers included in the book correspond to the 29 oral presentations and 57 posters presented at the conference.;They were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions.;The book offers topical sections on new directions, rules and trees, databases and reward-based learning, classification, association rules and exceptions, instance-based discovery, clustering, and time series analysis.
