Mining Graph Data

This text takes a focused and comprehensive look at an area of data mining that is quickly rising to the forefront of the field: mining data that is represented as a graph. Each chapter is written by a leading researcher in the field; collectively, the chapters represent the latest findings and applications in both theory and practice, including solutions to many of the algorithmic challenges that arise in mining graph data. Following the authors' step-by-step guidance, even readers with minimal background in analyzing graph data will be able to represent data as graphs, extract patterns and concepts from the data, and apply the methodologies presented in the text to real datasets.