This book constitutes the proceedings of the PAKDD Workshops 2008 namely ALSIP 2008 DMDRM
2008 and IDM 2008. The workshops were held in conjunction with the PAKDD conference in Osaka
Japan during May 20-23 2008. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 38 submissions. The International Workshop on Algorithms for Large-Sale Information
Processing in Knowledge Discovery (ALSIP) focused on exchanging fresh ideas on large-scale data
processing in the problems of data mining clustering machine learning statistical analysis
and other computational aspects of knowledge discovery problems. The Workshop on Data Mining
for Decision Making and Risk Management (DMDRM) covered data mining and machine learning
approaches statistical approaches chance discovery active mining and application of these
techniques to medicine marketing security decision support in business social activities
human relationships chemistry and sensor data. The Workshop on Interactive Data Mining
Overview (IDM) discussed various interactive data mining researches such as interactive
information retrieval information gathering sysetms personalization systems recommendation
systems user interfaces.
