... clustering, statistical learning, association analysis,andlinkmining,whichareallamongthemostimportanttopicsindataminingresearch and development, as well as for curriculum design for related data mining, ... algorithms can promote data mining towider real-world applications, and inspire more researchers in data mining to furtherexplore these10 algorithms, including theirimpactand newresearchissues. ... (PolyU) and Dr. Xindong Wu, when Dr. Wu wasgiving a seminar on 10 Challenging Problems in Data Mining Research [2] at PolyU.Dr. Wu and Dr. Vipin Kumar continued this discussion at KDD-06 in August...