Osmar R. Zaïane - Böcker

Addresses the impacts of data mining on education and reviews applications in educational research teaching, and learning This book discusses the insights, challenges, issues, expectations, and practical implementation of data mining (DM) within educational mandates. Initial series of chapters offer a general overview of DM, Learning Analytics (LA), and data collection models in the context of educational research, while also defining and discussing data mining’s four guiding principles— prediction, clustering, rule association, and outlier detection. The next series of chapters showcase the pedagogical applications of Educational Data Mining (EDM) and feature case studies drawn from Business, Humanities, Health Sciences, Linguistics, and Physical Sciences education that serve to highlight the successes and some of the limitations of data mining research applications in educational settings. The remaining chapters focus exclusively on EDM’s emerging role in helping to advance educational research—from identifying at-risk students and closing socioeconomic gaps in achievement to aiding in teacher evaluation and facilitating peer conferencing. This book features contributions from international experts in a variety of fields. Includes case studies where data mining techniques have been effectively applied to advance teaching and learningAddresses applications of data mining in educational research, including: social networking and education; policy and legislation in the classroom; and identification of at-risk studentsExplores Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to study the effectiveness of online networks in promoting learning and understanding the communication patterns among users and studentsFeatures supplementary resources including a primer on foundational aspects of educational mining and learning analyticsData Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research is written for both scientists in EDM and educators interested in using and integrating DM and LA to improve education and advance educational research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2017, held in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in May 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mining Web Data, WEBKDD 2002, held in Edmonton, Canada, in July 2002.The 10 revised full papers presented together with a detailed preface went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on categorization of users and usage, prediction and recommendation, and evaluation of algorithms.

This book presents a collection of thoroughly refereed revised papers selected from two international workshops on mining complex data: Multimedia Data Mining, MDM/KDD at KDD 2002 and Knowledge Discovery from Multimedia and Complex Data, KDMCD at PAKDD 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented together with a detailed introduction give a coherent survey of the state of the art in the area. Among the topics addressed are mining spatial multimedia data, mining audio data and multimedia support, mining image and video data, frameworks for multimedia mining, multimedia for information retrieval, and applications of multimedia mining.

Here are the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2006, held in Xi'an, China, August 2006. The book presents 41 revised full papers and 74 revised short papers together with 4 invited papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on association rules, classification, clustering, novel algorithms, multimedia mining, sequential data mining and time series mining, web mining, biomedical mining, advanced applications, and more.