ECML PKDD 2006 Workshop on
Practical Data Mining: Applications, Experiences and Challenges

Accepted as Oral Presentation

Customer churn prediction - a case study in retail banking
by Teemu Mutanen, Jussi Ahola and Sami Nousiainen

Sequence Mining for Customer Behaviour Predictions in Telecommunications
by Frank Eichinger, Detlef D. Nauck and Frank Klawonn

Onto Clustering of Criminal Careers
by Jeroen S. de Bruin, Tim K. Cocx, Walter A. Kosters, Jeroen F.J. Laros and Joost N. Kok

Bayesian Network Classifiers for Forecasting Country Risk
by Ernesto Coutinho Colla, Jaime Shinsuke Ide and Fabio Gagliardi Cozman

Experiences from Automatic Summarization of IMF Staff Reports
by Shuhua Liu and Johnny Lindroos

Online Ensembles for Financial Trading
by Jorge Barbosa and Luís Torgo

Mining Medical Administrative Data - The PKB System
by Aaron Ceglar, Richard Morrall and John F. Roddick

Clustering of Psychological Personality Tests of Criminal Offenders
by Markus Breitenbach, Tim Brennan, William Dieterich and Gregory Z. Grudic

Predictive Marketing
by Jochen Werner

Combination of diferent text mining strategies to classify requests about involuntary childlessness to an internet medical expert forum
by Wolfgang Himmel, Ulrich Reincke and Hans Wilhelm Michelmann

Data Mining Applications for Quality Analysis in Manufacturing
by Roland Grund

Network-based marketing: Identifying likely adopters via consumer networks
by S. Hill, F. Provost and C. Volinsky

Accepted as Poster Presentation

Carancho - A Decision Support System for Customs
by Norton Trevisan Roman, Everton Rufino Constantino, Helder Ribeiro, Jorge Jambeiro Filho, Antonella Lanna, Siome Klein Goldenstein and Jacques Wainer

Mining in Health Data by GUHA method
by Jan Rauch

Bridging the gap between commercial and open-source data mining tools: a case study
by Matjaz Kukar and Andrej Zega

Customer churn prediction using knowledge extraction from emergent structure maps
by Alfred Ultsch and Lutz Herrmann

Sequential patterns extraction in multitemporal satellite images
by Andreea Julea, Nicolas Meger and Emmanuel Trouv

Towards Better Understanding of CFB Boilers: Getting Domain Experts to Look at the Data Mining Perspective
by Mykola Pechenizkiy, Tommi Karkkainen, Andriy Ivannikov, Antti Tourunen and Heidi Hasa

An Investigation into a Beta-Carotene/Retinol Dataset Using Rough Sets
by Kenneth Revett, Florin Gorunescu and Marina Gorunescu

Taping into the European Energy Exchange (www.eex.de) to feed the stochastic Portfolio Optimization Tool "SpOt" for Electric Utilities
by Ulrich Reincke, Heiner Lake, Michael Wigbels, Andre Rothig and Michael Lucht

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