This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 2nd Inter- tional Workshop on Active Mining (AM 2003) which was organized in conju- tion with the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2003), held in Maebashi City, Japan, 28-31 October, 2003. The workshop was organized by the Maebashi Institute of Technology in - operation with the Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence. It was sponsored by the Maebashi Institute of Technology, the Maebashi Convention Bureau, the Maebashi City Government, the Gunma Prefecture Government, JSAI SIGKBS (Japanese Arti?cial Intelligence Society, Special Interest Group on Knowledge- Based Systems), a Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research on Priority Areas (No. 759) "Implementation of Active Mining in the Era of Information Flood," US AFOSR/AOARD, the Web Intelligence Consortium (Japan), the Gunma Inf- mation Service Industry Association, and Ryomo Systems Co., Ltd. ISMIS is a conference series that was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
SincethenithasbeenheldinCharlotte(NorthCarolina),Knoxville(Tennessee), Torin (Italy), Trondheim (Norway), Warsaw (Poland), Zakopane (Poland), and Lyon (France). The objective of this workshop was to gather researchers as well as prac- tioners who are working on various research ?elds of active mining, share ha- learned experiences, and shed light on the future development of active mining.