We are please to announce that SIGKDD Explorations Volume 4, Issue 1 is available online at:
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/ Roberto Bayardo served as Guest Editor for this issue and coordinated a set of high-quality articles on the topic of "Constraints in Data Mining". Table of Contents: - - R. J. Bayardo. Editorial. pp. i-ii. Contributed Articles on "Constraints in Data Mining" - - R. Potharst and A. J. Feelders. Classification Trees for Problems with Monotonicity Constraints. pp. 1 - 10. - - S. Babu, M. Garofalakis, and R. Rastogi. SPARTAN: Using Constrained Models for Guaranteed Error Semantic Compression. pp. 11 - 20. - - X. Wu and D. Barbara. Learning Missing Values from Summary Constraints. pp. 21 - 30. - - J. Pei and J. Han. Constrained Frequent Pattern Mining: A Pattern-Growth View. pp. 31 - 39. - - C. K.-S. Leung, L. V. S. Lakshmanan, and R. T. Ng. Exploiting Succinct Constraints using FP-trees. pp. 40 - 49. - - J. Hipp and U. Guntzer. Is Pushing Constraints Deeply into the Mining Algorithms Really What We Want? pp. 50 - 55. - - C.-S. Perng, H. Wang, S. Ma, and J. L. Hellerstein. Discovery in Multi-Attribute Data with User-defined Constraints. pp. 56 - 64. Contributed Articles - - V. Estivill-Castro. Why so many clustering algorithms -- A Position Paper. pp. 65 - 75. News, Events and Announcements. pp. 76 - 78. Roberto Bayardo Guest Editor Usama Fayyad Editor in Chief Sunita Sarawagi Associate Editor Paul Bradley Associate Editor
