Special Issue on CIDU '11

The NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU) is application-oriented with a focus on Earth & Environmental Systems, Space Science, and Aerospace & Engineering Systems. The conference was held on October 19–21, 2011, in Mountain View, CA, at the Computer History Museum. The CIDU 2011 Program Committee solicited themeoriented papers that help advance one of the aforementioned applications through machine-learning or data-mining techniques. Papers were invited that include a clear link between the domain (application area) and machine learning and data mining. The papers of this year cover a significant number of application areas and also new algorithmic developments. Of the papers accepted at the conference seven were selected for publication in this Special Issue and cover a wide range of domains and application areas including: