From the contents: Part I Foundations of Data Mining; Knowledge Discovery as Translation; Mathematical Foundation of Association Rules – Mining Associations by Solving Integral Linear Inequalities; Comparative Study of Sequential Pattern Mining Models; Designing Robust Regression Models; A Probabilistic Logic-based Framework for Characterizing Knowledge Discovery in Databases; A Careful Look at the Use of Statistical Methodology in Data Mining; Justification and Hypothesis Selection in Data Mining -- Part II Methods of Data Mining; A Comparative Investigation on Model Selection in Binary Factor Analysis; Extraction of Generalized Rules with Automated Attribute Abstraction; Decision Making Based on Hybrid of Multi-knowledge and Naïve Bayes Classifier; First-Order Logic Based Formalism for Temporal Data Mining; An Alternative Approach to Mining Association Rules -- Part III General Knowledge Discovery; Posting Act Tagging Using Transformation-Based Learning.