Edited by two of the leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive reference book on feature engineering. The book provides a description of problems and applications for feature engineering, as well as its techniques, principles, issues, and challenges.

Dr. Guozhu Dong is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California and his B.S. in Mathematics from Shandong University. Before joining Wright State University, he was a faculty member at Flinders University and then at the University of Melbourne. At Wright State University, he was recognized for Excellence in Research in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests are in data mining, machine learning, database, data science, and artificial intelligence. He co-authored a book on Sequence Data Mining and co-edited a book on Contrast Data Mining. He has served on numerous conference program committees.

Dr. Huan Liu is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Southern California and B.Eng. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai JiaoTong University. Before he joined ASU, he worked at Telecom Australia Research Labs and was on the faculty at National University of Singapore. At Arizona State University, he was recognized for excellence in teaching and research in Computer Science and Engineering and received the 2014 President's Award for Innovation. His research interests are in data mining, machine learning, social computing, and artificial intelligence, investigating interdisciplinary problems that arise in many real-world, data-intensive applications with high-dimensional data of disparate forms such as social media. His well-cited publications include books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries as well as conference and journal papers. He is a co-author of Social Media Mining: An Introduction by Cambridge University Press. He serves on journal editorial boards and numerous conference program committees, and is a founding organizer of the International Conference Series on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. He is an IEEE Fellow. More can be found at http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu.

1. Preliminaries and Overview 2. Feature Engineering for Text Data 3. Feature Extraction and Learning for Visual Data 4. Feature-based time-series analysis 5. Feature Engineering for Data Streams 6. Feature Generation and Feature Engineering for Sequences 7. Feature Generation for Graphs and Networks 8. Feature Selection and Evaluation 9. Automating Feature Engineering in Supervised Learning 10. Pattern based Feature Generation 11. Deep Learning for Feature Representation 12. Feature Engineering for Social Bot Detection 13. Feature Generation and Engineering for Software Analytics 14. Feature Engineering for Twitter-based Applications