This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2007, held in Harbin, China in August 2007.

The 44 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with the abstract of 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from about 200 submissions. The papers focus on advancements in data mining and peculiarities and challenges of real world applications using data mining. The major theme of the conference encompasses the innovative applications of data mining approaches to real-world problems that involve large data sets, incomplete and noisy data, or demand optimal solutions.