This practical, applications-oriented book describes essential tools for efficiently handling massive amounts of data.

This Festschrift volume, published to honor Esko Ukkonen on his 60th birthday, includes papers that present research on computational pattern matching and string algorithms, two areas that have benefited significantly from the work of Ukonen.

Papers from a workshop held at Cornell University, Oct. 1989, and sponsored by Cornell's Mathematical Sciences Institute. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Consists of 72 full papers and 49 short papers from the December 2002 conference on the design, analysis, and implementation of data mining theory, systems, and applications. Topics of the full papers include evolutionary time series segmentation for stock data mining, cluster merging and splitting