TKDE'05 - September 2005, Volume 17, Issue 9 Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Intelligent Data Preparation Chengqi Zhang Qiang Yang Bing Liu Linear-time wrappers to identify atypical points: two subset generation methods Saeed Hashemi A new dependency and correlation analysis for features Guangzhi Qu Salim Hariri Mazin S. Yousif GHIC: a hierarchical pattern-based clustering algorithm for grouping Web transactions Yinghui Yang Balaji Padmanabhan Using object deputy model to prepare data for data warehousing Zhiyong Peng Qing Li Feng L. Xuhui Li Junqiang Liu Toward unsupervised correlation preserving discretization Sameep Mehta Srinivasan Parthasarathy Hui Yang Security of Chien's efficient time-bound hierarchical key assignment sch Xun Yi Hierarchical taxonomy preparation for text categorization using consistent bipartite spectral graph copartitioning Bin Gao Tie-Yan Liu Guang Feng Tao Qin QianSheng Cheng Wei-Ying Ma Introducing a family of linear measures for feature selection in text categorization Elías F. Combarro Elena Montañés Irene Díaz José Ranilla Ricardo Mones IDR/QR: an incremental dimension reduction algorithm via QR decomposition Jieping Ye Qi Li Hui Xiong Haesun Park Ravi Janardan Vipin Kumar QA-Pagelet: data preparation techniques for large-scale data analysis of the deep Web James Caverlee Ling Liu A discretization algorithm based on a heterogeneity criterion Xiaoyan Liu Huaiqing Wang Automatic identification of informative sections of Web pages Sandip Debnath Prasenjit Mitra Nirmal Pal C. Lee Giles Feature subset selection and feature ranking for multivariate time series Hyunjin Yoon Kiyoung Yang Cyrus Shahabi Return to TKDE'05 session listing ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery