Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

The two-volume set LNAI 8443 + LNAI 8444 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2014, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014. They cover the general fields of pattern mining; graph and network mining; biomedical data mining; and unstructured data and text mining.