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This book details the state-of-the-art research and development regarding the synergism of multiagents and data mining. Specifically, it presents the methodologies, algorithms and systems that integrate these two cutting-edge technologies.

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Data Mining and Multi agent Integration aims to re?ect state of the art research and development of agent mining interaction and integration (for short, agent min ing). The book was motivated by increasing interest and work in the agents data min ing, and vice versa. The interaction and integration comes about from the intrinsic challenges faced by agent technology and data mining respectively; for instance, multi agent systems face the problem of enhancing agent learning capability, and avoiding the uncertainty of self organization and intelligence emergence. Data min ing, if integrated into agent systems, can greatly enhance the learning skills of agents, and assist agents with predication of future states, thus initiating follow up action or intervention. The data mining community is now struggling with mining distributed, interactive and heterogeneous data sources. Agents can be used to man age such data sources for data access, monitoring, integration, and pattern merging from the infrastructure, gateway, message passing and pattern delivery perspectives. These two examples illustrate the potential of agent mining in handling challenges in respective communities. There is an excellent opportunity to create innovative, dual agent mining interac tion and integration technology, tools and systems which will deliver results in one new technology.

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to Agents and Data Mining Interaction.- to Agent Mining Interaction and Integration.- Towards the Integration of Multiagent Applications and Data Mining.- Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining: A Survey.- Data Mining Driven Agents.- Exploiting Swarm Behaviour of Simple Agents for Clustering Web Users´ Session Data.- Mining Temporal Patterns to Improve Agents Behavior: Two Case Studies.- A Multi-Agent System for Extracting and Analysing Users´ Interaction in a Collaborative Knowledge Management System.- Towards Information Enrichment through Recommendation Sharing.- A Multiagent-based Intrusion Detection System with the Support of Multi-Class Supervised Classification.- Automatic Web Data Extraction Based on Genetic Algorithms and Regular Expressions.- Establishment and Maintenance of a Knowledge Network by Means of Agents and Implicit Data.- Equipping Intelligent Agents with Commonsense Knowledge acquired from Search Query Logs: Results from an Exploratory Story.- A Multi-Agent Learning Paradigm for Medical Data Mining Diagnostic Workbench.- Agent Driven Data Mining.- The EMADS Extendible Multi-Agent Data Mining Framework.- A Multiagent Approach to Adaptive Continuous Analysis of Streaming Data in Complex Uncertain Environments.- Multiagent Systems for Large Data Clustering.- A Multiagent, Multiobjective Clustering Algorithm.- Integration of Agents and Data Mining in Interactive Web Environment for Psychometric Diagnostics.- A Multi-Agent Framework for Anomalies Detection on Distributed Firewalls Using Data Mining Techniques.- Competitive-Cooperative Automated Reasoning from Distributed and Multiple Source of Data.- Normative Multi-Agent Enriched Data Mining to Support E-Citizens.- CV-Muzar - The Virtual Community Environment that Uses Multiagent Systems for Formation of Groups.- Agent based Video Contents Identification and Data Mining Using Watermark based Filtering.- Erratum.

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