Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are powerful data analysis tools. Data mining (DM) is an important tool for the mission critical applications to minimize, filter, extract or transform large databases or datasets into summarized information and exploring hidden patterns in knowledge discovery (KD). Sort of the data mining algorithms can be used in different real life applications. Classification, prediction, clustering, segmentation, summarization can be done on the large amount of data by using DM methods. The rapid dissemination of these technologies calls for an urgent examination of their social impact. The terms "Knowledge Discovery" and "Data Mining" are used to describe the 'non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data. Knowledge discovery is a concept that describes the process of searching on large volumes of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data. The most well-known branch of knowledge discovery is data mining.Data mining is a multidisciplinary field with many techniques. With these techniques you can create a mining model that describe the data that you will use, some of these techniques are clustering algorithms, tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, association rules, etc.. Data Mining is a fast-growing research area, in which connections among and interactions between individuals are analyzed to understand innovation, collective decision making, problem solving, and how the structure of organizations and social networks impacts these processes. Data Mining finds several applications; for instance, in different areas like biological, medicine, industrialist, business, economic, e-commerce, security, others.This book presents four different ways of theoretical and practical advances and applications of data mining in different promising areas like Industrialist, Biological, and Social. Twenty six chapters cover different special topics with proposed novel ideas. Each chapter gives an overview of the subjects and sort of the chapters have cases with offered data mining solutions. We hope that this book will be served as a Data Mining bible to show a right way for the students, researchers and practitioners in their studies. The twenty six chapters have been classified in four corresponding parts.• Knowledge Discovery • Clustering and Classification • Challenges and Benchmarks in Data Mining • Data Mining Applications The first part contains four chapters related to Knowledge Discovery. The focus of the contributions in this part, are the fundamental concepts and tools for extraction, representation, and retrieving of Knowledge in large Data Bases.The second part contains seven chapters related to Clustering and Classification. The focus of the contributions in this part, are the techniques and tools used to made clusters and classify the data on the basis of specific characteristics.
VIIIThe third part contains three chapters related to Challenges and Benchmarks in Data Mining. The focus of the co...