This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2009, held in Beijing, China, in August 2009.The 34 revised full papers and 47 revised short papers presented together with the abstract of 4 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 322 submissions from 27 countries. The papers focus on advancements in data mining and peculiarities and challenges of real world applications using data mining and feature original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems, and different applied disciplines with potential in data mining.