Suh (Texas A&M U.-Commerce) introduces the concept and nature of data mining and explains how its various techniques and algorithms can be exploited, integrated, and used to design intelligent data mining systems. While hoping to be accessible to generally educated lay readers, he has particularly in mind senior undergraduate or beginning graduate students who have already completed a course in database design principles. The material is flexible enough to be used in a course of one quarter or one semester. Among the topics are classification learning, neural networks, clustering, and fuzzy information retrieval. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)