Over the course of the last twenty years research in data mining has seen a substantial
increase in interest attracting original contributions from various disciplines including
computer science statistics operations research and information systems. Data mining
supports a wide range of applications from medical decision making bioinformatics web-usage
mining and text and image recognition to prominent business applications in corporate planning
direct marketing and credit scoring. Research in information systems equally reflects this
inter- and multidisciplinary approach thereby advocating a series of papers at the
intersection of data mining and information systems research. This special issue of Annals of
Information Systems contains original papers and substantial extensions of selected papers from
the 2007 and 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07 and DMIN'08 Las Vegas NV)
that have been rigorously peer-reviewed. The issue brings together topics on both information
systems and data mining and aims to give the reader a current snapshot of the contemporary
research and state of the art practice in data mining.
