Proceedings of the Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

We are very pleased to present the proceedings of the 2003 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. The field of Data Mining has seen a tremendous increase of interest in recent months. Applications of Data Mining are mentioned often in the daily press, especially in the fields of security and forensics. Thus, these are exciting times for researchers and practitioners in the area. We hope that the research captured by these proceedings helps in advancing this important field.