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Chapter 1: Data Mining Overview Chapter 2: Data Acquisition and Integration Chapter 3: Data Pre-processing Chapter 4: Physical Design for Decision Support, Warehousing, and OLAPChapter 5: Algorithms - The Basic Methods Chapter 6: Further Techniques in Decision Analysis Chapter 7: Fundamental Concepts of Genetic Algorithms Chapter 8: Spatio-Temporal Data Structures and Algorithms for Moving Objects Types Chapter 9: Improving the Mined ModelChapter 10: Web Mining - Social Network Analysis