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This presentation of emergent research topics at the intersection of data mining and database research covers the state of the art in this field as well as examining its applications to problems of practical relevance such as those in bioinformatics.

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This book is about inductive databases and constraint-based data mining, emerging research topics lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The aim of the book as to provide an overview of the state-of- the art in this novel and - citing research area. Of special interest are the recent methods for constraint-based mining of global models for prediction and clustering, the uni?cation of pattern mining approaches through constraint programming, the clari?cation of the re- tionship between mining local patterns and global models, and the proposed in- grative frameworks and approaches for inducive databases. On the application side, applications to practically relevant problems from bioinformatics are presented. Inductive databases (IDBs) represent a database view on data mining and kno- edge discovery. IDBs contain not only data, but also generalizations (patterns and models) valid in the data. In an IDB, ordinary queries can be used to access and - nipulate data, while inductive queries can be used to generate (mine), manipulate, and apply patterns and models. In the IDB framework, patterns and models become "?rst-class citizens" and KDD becomes an extended querying process in which both the data and the patterns/models that hold in the data are queried.

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Inductive Databases and Constraint-based Data Mining: Introduction and Overview.- Representing Entities in the OntoDM Data Mining Ontology.- A Practical Comparative Study Of Data Mining Query Languages.- A Theory of Inductive Query Answering.- Constraint-based Mining: Selected Techniques.- Generalizing Itemset Mining in a Constraint Programming Setting.- From Local Patterns to Classification Models.- Constrained Predictive Clustering.- Finding Segmentations of Sequences.- Mining Constrained Cross-Graph Cliques in Dynamic Networks.- Probabilistic Inductive Querying Using ProbLog.- Inductive Databases: Integration Approaches.- Inductive Querying with Virtual Mining Views.- SINDBAD and SiQL: Overview, Applications and Future Developments.- Patterns on Queries.- Experiment Databases.- Applications.- Predicting Gene Function using Predictive Clustering Trees.- Analyzing Gene Expression Data with Predictive Clustering Trees.- Using a Solver Over the String Pattern Domain to Analyze Gene Promoter Sequences.- Inductive Queries for a Drug Designing Robot Scientist.

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