Complex Pattern Mining - New Challenges, Methods and Applications

Complex pattern mining provides concepts and techniques to process the huge volumes of data with a complex structure, which are nowadays gathered in various applications. These massive and complex data pose new challenges for current research in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. They require new theory and design methods for storing, managing, and analyzing them by taking into account various complexity aspects: complex structures (e.g., multi-relational, time series and sequences, networks, and trees) as input/output of the data mining process; massive amounts of high-dimensional data collections flooding as high-speed streams and requiring (near) real-time processing and model adaptation to concept drifts; new application scenarios involving security issues, intera