Michael R. Berthold & Paul Cohen 
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis. Reasoning about Data [PDF ebook] 
Second International Symposium, IDA-97, London, UK, August 4-6, 1997, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA-97, held in London, UK, in August 1997.The volume presents 50 revised full papers selected from a total of 107 submissions. Also included is a keynote, Intelligent Data Analysis: Issues and Opportunities, by David J. Hand. The papers are organized in sections on exploratory data analysis, preprocessing and tools; classification and feature selection; medical applications; soft computing; knowledge discovery and data mining; estimation and clustering; data quality; qualitative models.