This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2013, affiliated with the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) held in Gold Coast, Australia in April 2013.
The 47 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The workshops affiliated...

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