The book aims to merge Computational Intelligence with Data Mining, which are both hot topics of current research and industrial development, Computational Intelligence, incorporates techniques like data fusion, uncertain reasoning, heuristic search, learning, and soft computing. Data Mining focuses on unscrambling unknown patterns or structures in very large data sets. Under the headline Discovering Structures in Large Databases the book starts with a unified view on Data Mining and Statistics - A System Point of View. Two special techniques follow: Subgroup Mining, and Data Mining with Possibilistic Graphical Models. Data Fusion and Possibilistic or Fuzzy Data Analysis is the next area of interest. An overview of possibilistic logic, nonmonotonic reasoning and data fusion is given, the coherence problem between data and non-linear fuzzy models is tackled, and outlier detection based on lernaing of fuzzy models is studied. In the domain of Classification and Decomposition adaptive clustering and visualisation of high dimensional data sets is introduced. Finally, in the section Learning and Data Fusion learning of special multi-agents of virtual soccer is considered. The last topic is on data fusion based on stochastic models.

This volume contains a revised collection of papers originally presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in 1995. The topics represented in this collection of 42 papers are diverse and include natural language applications, causality and graphical models, classification, learning, knowledge discovery, and exploratory data analysis. The papers illustrate the rich possibilities for interdisciplinary study at the interface of artificial intelligence and statistics.