Advances in Data Mining. Medical Applications, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Theoretical Aspects Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence : Springer : 9783540707172 : 3540707174 : 07 Jul 2008 : ICDM / MLDM Medaillie (limited edition) Meissner Porcellan, the ?White Gold? of King August the Strongest of Saxonia ICDM 2008 was the eighth event of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining held in Leipzig (www.data-mining-forum.de). For this edition the Program Committee received 116 submissions from 20 countries. After the peer-review process, we accepted 36 high-quality papers for oral presentation, which are included in these proceedings. The topics range from aspects of classification and prediction, clustering, Web mining, data mining in medicine, applications of data mining, time series and frequent pattern mining, and association rule mining. Thirteen papers were selected for poster presentations that are published in the ICDM Poster Proceeding Volume. In conjunction with ICDM there were