This special issue of Annals of Information Systems contains original papers and substantial extensions of selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN’07 and DMIN’08, Las Vegas, NV) that have been rigorously peer-reviewed. The issue brings together topics on both information systems and data mining, and aims to give the reader a current snapshot of the contemporary research and state of the art practice in data mining. Among the suggested topics of interest were:
Predictive data mining; managerial decision support; data mining applications in marketing, operations management, finance, logistics and supply chain management; data warehousing and business intelligence; document classification and web-usage mining; association rule mining and market basket analysis; security, privacy and social impact of data mining