This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2005, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in May 2005.
The 48 revised full papers and 49 revised short papers presented together with abstracts or extended abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 327 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical foundations, association rules, biomedical domains, classification and ranking, clustering, dynamic data mining, graphical model discovery, high dimensional data, integration of data warehousing, knowledge management, machine learning, novel algorithms, spatial data, temporal data, and text and Web data mining.