association rules are among important techniques in data mining which are used for extracting hidden patterns and knowledge in large volumes of data. association rules help individuals and organizations take strategic decisions and improve their business processes. extracted association rules from a database contain important and confidential information that if published, the privacy of indivi...

Preface What is data mining? " Data mining is the analysis of (often large) observational data sets to find unsuspected relationships and to summarize the data in novel ways that are both understandable and useful to the data owner. "-Data mining is predicted to be " one of the most revolutionary developments of the next decade " , according to the online technology magazine ZDNET News (Februar...

Data Mining, oder auch Wissensentdeckung in Datenbanken, ist ein noch recht junges Forschungsgebiet, das als Antwort auf die Datenflut entstanden ist, der wir uns heute gegenübersehen. Es widmet sich der Herausforderung, Techniken zu entwickeln, die Menschen helfen können, nützliche Muster in ihren Daten zu finden. Eine dieser Techniken — und sicher eine der wichtigsten, da sie für so häufige D...

Data mining methods have in recent years enabled the development of more sophisticated student models which represent and detect a broader range of student behaviors than was previously possible. This chapter summarizes key data mining methods that have supported student modeling efforts, discussing also the specific constructs that have been modeled with the use of educational data mining. We ...