The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application. In economic decision making such as credit loan...

In economic decision problems such as credit loan approval or risk analysis, models are required to be monotone with respect to the decision variables involved. Also in hedonic price models it is natural to impose monotonicity constraints on the price rule or function. If a model is obtained by...