Inductive Databases and Constraint-based Data Mining: Introduction and Overview -- Representing Entities in the OntoDM Data Mining Ontology -- A Practical Comparative Study Of Data Mining Query Languages -- A Theory of Inductive Query Answering -- Constraint-based Mining: Selected Techniques -- Generalizing Itemset Mining in a Constraint Programming Setting -- From Local Patterns to Classification Models -- Constrained Predictive Clustering -- Finding Segmentations of Sequences -- Mining Constrained Cross-Graph Cliques in Dynamic Networks -- Probabilistic Inductive Querying Using ProbLog -- Inductive Databases: Integration Approaches -- Inductive Querying with Virtual Mining Views -- SINDBAD and SiQL: Overview, Applications and Future Developments -- Patterns on Queries -- Experiment Databases -- Applications -- Predicting Gene Function using Predictive Clustering Trees -- Analyzing Gene Expression Data with Predictive Clustering Trees -- Using a Solver Over the String Pattern Domain to Analyze Gene Promoter Sequences -- Inductive Queries for a Drug Designing Robot Scientist.

This book presents inductive databases and constraint-based data mining, emerging research topics lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in this novel research area. Of special interest are the recent methods for constraint-based mining of global models for prediction and clustering, the unification of pattern mining approaches through constraint programming, the clarification of the relationship between mining local patterns and global models, and the proposed integrative frameworks and approaches for inductive databases. On the application side, applications to practically relevant problems from bioinformatics are presented to attract additional attention from a wider audience. The primary audience consists of scientists and graduate students in computer science and bio-informatics. Potential readers are likely to attend conferences on databases, data mining/ machine learning, and bio-informatics.