New to the second edition of this advanced text are several chapters on regression, including neural networks and deep learning.

Mohammed J. Zaki is Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, where he also serves as Associate Department Head and Graduate Program Director. He has more than 250 publications and is an Associate Editor for the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He is on the Board of Directors for Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD). He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator Award. He is an ACM Distinguished Member, and IEEE Fellow.

1. Data mining and analysis; Part I. Data Analysis Foundations: 2. Numeric attributes; 3. Categorical attributes; 4. Graph data; 5. Kernel methods; 6. High-dimensional data; 7. Dimensionality reduction; Part II. Frequent Pattern Mining: 8. Itemset mining; 9. Summarizing itemsets; 10. Sequence mining; 11. Graph pattern mining; 12. Pattern and rule assessment; Part III. Clustering: 13. Representative-based clustering; 14. Hierarchical clustering; 15. Density-based clustering; 16. Spectral and graph clustering; 17. Clustering validation; Part IV. Classification: 18. Probabilistic classification; 19. Decision tree classifier; 20. Linear discriminant analysis; 21. Support vector machines; 22. Classification assessment; Part V. Regression: 23. Linear regression; 24. Logistic regression; 25. Neural networks; 26. Deep learning; 27. Regression evaluation.