■ Slide presentations for each chapter. Lecture notes in Microsoft PowerPoint slides are available for each chapter.

■ Companion chapters on advanced data mining. Chapters 8 to 10 of the second edition of the book, which cover mining complex data types, are available on the book’s web sites for readers who are interested in learning more about such advanced topics, beyond the themes covered in this book.

■ Instructors’ manual. This complete set of answers to the exercises in the book is available only to instructors from the publisher’s web site.

■ Course syllabi and lecture plans. These are given for undergraduate and graduate versions of introductory and advanced courses on data mining, which use the text and slides.

■ Supplemental reading lists with hyperlinks. Seminal papers for supplemental reading are organized per chapter.

■ Links to data mining data sets and software. We provide a set of links to data mining data sets and sites that contain interesting data mining software packages, such as IlliMine from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://illimine.cs.uiuc.edu.

■ Sample assignments, exams, and course projects. A set of sample assignments, exams, and course projects is available to instructors from the publisher’s web site.

■ Figures from the book. This may help you to make your own slides for your classroom teaching.

■ Contents of the book in PDF format.

■ Errata on the different printings of the book. We encourage you to point out any errors in this book. Once the error is confirmed, we will update the errata list and include acknowledgment of your contribution.