Table of Contents




Part I. Introduction


1.

Data Mining in a Nutshell


Saso Dzeroski


2.

Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Overview


Usama Fayyad


3.

An Introduction to Inductive Logic Programming


Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac


4.

Inductive Logic Programming for Knowledge Discovery in Databases


Stefan Wrobel



Part II. Techniques


5.

Three Companions for Data Mining in First Order Logic


Luc De Raedt, Hendrik Blockeel, Luc Dehaspe, and Wim Van Laer


6.

Inducing Classification and Regression Trees in First Order Logic


Stefan Kramer and Gerhard Widmer


7.

Relational Rule Induction with CProgol4.4: A Tutorial Introduction


Stephen Muggleton and John Firth


8.

Discovery of Relational Association Rules


Luc Dehaspe and Hannu Toivonen


9.

Distance Based Approaches to Relational Learning and Clustering


Mathias Kirsten, Stefan Wrobel, and Tamas Horvath



Part III. From Propositional to Relational Data Mining


10.

How to Upgrade Propositional Learners to First Order Logic: A Case Study


Wim Van Laer and Luc De Raedt


11.

Propositionalization Approaches to Relational Data Mining


Stefan Kramer, Nada Lavrac, and Peter Flach


12.

Relational Learning and Boosting


Ross Quinlan


13.

Learning Probabilistic Relational Models


Lise Getoor, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koller, and Avi Pfeffer



Part IV. Applications and Web Resources


14.

Relational Data Mining Applications: An Overview


Saso Dzeroski


15.

Four Suggestions and a Rule Concerning the Application of ILP


Ashwin Srinivasan


16.

Internet Resources on ILP for KDD


Ljupco Todorovski, Irene Weber, Nada Lavrac, Olga Stepankova, Saso Dzeroski, Dimitar Kazakov, Darko Zupanic, and Peter Flach