Sehara\'s sudden departure leaves the other inhabitants of the palace dumbfounded. Willing himself out of shock, Sultan Shahryar takes matters into his own hands and goes on a journey of his own, only to end up face-to-face with the enemy . . . and a ghost from the past!...

It\'s the second night, and our unusual Shahrazad tells yet another story to save his own life from the mad Sultan. This time, it\'s a tragic love story between a beauty from an exotic Eastern kingdom and a slave who\'s from a far away Western kingdom. Let\'s be quiet and listen to Shahrazad\'s beautiful and fascinating tale alongside the Sultan....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2003, held in Seoul, Korea in April/Mai 2003. The 38 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented together with two invited industrial contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions....