The increasing volume of data in modern business and science calls for more complex and sophisticated tools. Although advances in data mining technology have made extensive data collection much easier, it's still always evolving and there is a constant need for new techniques and tools that can help us transform this data into useful information and knowledge. Since the previous edition's publication, great advances have been made in the field of data mining. Not only does the third of edition of Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques continue the tradition of equipping you with an understanding and application of the theory and practice of discovering patterns hidden in large data sets, it also focuses on new, important topics in the field: data warehouses and data cube technology, mining stream, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multimedia and other complex data. Each chapter is a stand-alone guide to a critical topic, presenting proven algorithms and sound implementations ready to be used directly or with strategic modification against live data. This is the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges.

* Presents dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects. * Addresses advanced topics such as mining object-relational databases, spatial databases, multimedia databases, time-series databases, text databases, the World Wide Web, and applications in several fields. *Provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to get the most out of your data

Jiawei Han(韓傢煒)，是伊利諾伊大學厄巴納-尚佩恩分校計算機科學係的Bliss教授。他因知識發現和數據挖掘研究方麵的貢獻而獲得許多奬勵，包括ACM SIGKDD創新奬(2004)、IEEE計算機學會技術成就奬(2005)和IEEE W.Wallace McDowell奬(2009)。他是ACM和IEEE會士。他還擔任《ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data》的執行主編(2006—2011)和許多雜誌的編委，包括《IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering》和《Data Mining Knowledge Discovery》。

擁有加拿大康考迪亞大學計算機科學碩士學位，現在加拿大西濛弗雷澤大學從事博士後研究工作。