Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery in Data Using Intelligent Information Systems

摘要

Our capabilities of both generating and collecting data have been increasing rapidly. Contributing factors include the computerization of business, scientific, and government transactions; the widespread use of digital cameras, publication tools, and bar codes for most commercial products; and advances in data collection tools ranging from scanned text and image platforms to satellite remote sensing systems. In addition, popular use of the World Wide Web as a global information system has flooded us with a tremendous amount of data and information. This explosive growth in stored or transient data has generated an urgent need for new techniques and automated tools that can intelligently assist us in transforming the vast amounts of data into useful information and knowledge. Data mining is the most promising solution to the problem. It is a promising and flourishing frontier in data and information systems and their applications. Data mining, also popularly referred to as knowledge discovery from data (KDD), is the automated or convenient extraction of patterns representing knowledge implicitly stored or captured in large databases, data warehouses, the Web, other massive information repositories, or data streams. Data mining is a multidisciplinary field, drawing work from areas including database technology, machine learning, statistics, pattern recognition, information retrieval, neural networks, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and data visualization. Various techniques for the discovery of patterns hidden in large data sets, focusing on issues relating to their feasibility, usefulness, effectiveness, and scalability can be addressed through data mining. Data mining emerged during the late 1980s, made great strides during the 1990s, and continues to flourish into the new millennium.