Mining Graph Data
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
LAWRENCE B. HOLDER AND DIANE J. COOK
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
The ability to mine data to extract useful knowledge has become one of the most
important challenges in government, industry, and scientific communities. Much
success has been achieved when the data to be mined represents a set of independent
entities and their attributes, for example, customer transactions. However, in most
domains, there is interesting knowledge to be mined from the relationships between
entities. This relational knowledge may take many forms from periodic patterns of
transactions to complicated structural patterns of interrelated transactions. Extracting
such knowledge requires the d ... read full excerpt from Mining Graph Data ebook
