From the contents Part I: Theoretical Foundations. Commonsense Causal Modeling in the Data Mining Context. Definability of Association Rules in Predicate Calculus. A Measurement-Theoretic Foundation of Rule Interestingness Evaluation. Statistical Independence as Linear Dependence in a Contingency Table. Foundations of Classification.- Part II: Novel Approaches. SVM-OD: SVM Method to Detect Outliers. Extracting Rules from Incomplete Decision Systems: System ERID. Mining for Patterns Based on Contingency Tables by KL-Miner - First Experience. Knowledge Discovery in Fuzzy Databases Using Attribute-Oriented Induction. Rough Set Strategies to Data with Missing Attribute Values. Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining.- Part III: Novel Applications. Research Issues in Web Structural Delta Mining. Workflow Reduction for Reachable-path Rediscovery in Workflow Mining. Principal Component-based Anomaly Detection Scheme. Making Better Sense of the Demographic Data Value in the Data Mining Procedure.