Data Mining

Yong Yin has been Associate Professor at Yamagata University, Japan, since 2004. He was previously Assistant Professor at the same university from 2002 to 2004. His research areas are manufacturing strategy; product development; workforce agility; and supply chain management.Ikou Kaku is a professor at the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Akita Prefectural University, Japan. His research interests are in human factors related to manufacturing; mathematical modeling and meta heuristics; data mining techniques and their application in inventory management; and supply chain management.Jiafu Tang is a professor at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He works in the Institute of Systems Engineering's Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry of MOE.JianMing Zhu is a professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China. He works in the School of Information.

From the reviews: "The book is a combination of a textbook and a collection of papers. ... useful for industrial and managerial practitioners who want to understand DM-related methods and how they could use DM to support their decisions. Beginning researchers might also benefit because the book reflects the diversity of DM methods without providing complex details of the algorithms. ... this book will inspire and motivate decision makers to consider DM as a useful approach for solving some decision problems." (Robert Stahlbock, Interfaces, Vol. 42 (4), July-August, 2012) "The authors spend the first six chapters of this book introducing the various methods of data analysis, focusing on programming algorithms for data mining related to the fields of business management and engineering design. ... Each chapter ends with a number of references that provide additional resources for those who wish to explore the issues further. ... I recommend this book to practitioners and researchers who are interested in data mining applications for business management and engineering design." (E. Y. Lee, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2011)

• 1. Decision Analysis and Cluster Analysis.- 2. Association Rules Mining in Inventory Data Base.- 3. Fuzzy Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Methods.- 4. Genetic Algorithm Based Fuzzy Nonlinear Programming.- 5. Neural Network and Self Organizing Maps.- 6. Privacy Preserving Data Mining.- 7. Supply Chain Design by Using Decision Analysis.- 8. Product Architecture and Product Development Process for Global Performance.- 9. Application of Cluster Analysis to Cellular Manufacturing.- 10. Manufacturing Cells Design by Cluster Analysis.- 11. Fuzzy Approach to Quality Function Deployment-based Product Planning.- 12. Decision Making with Consideration of Association in Supply Chains.- 13. Applying Self Organizing Maps to Master Data Making in Automatic Exterior Inspection.- 14. Application for Privacy Preserving Data Mining.