Pattern Detection and Discovery : ESF Exploratory Workshop London UK September 16–19 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of an international workshop on Pattern Detection and Discovery organized by the European Science Foundation in London UK in September 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed for inclusion in this state of the art book. Six papers present an introduction and general issues in the emerging field. Four papers are devoted to association rules. Four papers deal with various aspects of text mining and Web mining and three papers explore advanced applications