Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for Network-Based Data Mining

The matters of discussion are combinatorial optimization aspects, concepts, and applications arising in the broad area of network-based data mining. The approach of representing real-world datasets as large-scale networks (graphs) has become increasingly popular during recent years. The purpose of this chapter is to briefly review the graph-theoretic and combinatorial optimization concepts that are important in the context of data mining, as well as to discuss the interpretation of these concepts from mathematical modeling perspective.