This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theThird International Conference on Mining Intelligence and KnowledgeExploration, MIKE 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.The 48 full papers and 8 short papers presented togetherwith 4 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 185submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including informationretrieval, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge discovery,classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speechprocessing, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation,fuzzy sets, and business intelligence.