Data mining is one of the most important steps of the knowledge discovery indatabases process and is considered as significant subfield in knowledgemanagement. Research in data mining continues growing in business and inlearning organization over coming decades. This review paper explores theapplications of data mining techniques which have been developed to supportknowledge management process. The journal articles indexed in ScienceDirectDatabase from 2007 to 2012 are analyzed and classified. The discussion on thefindings is divided into 4 topics: (i) knowledge resource; (ii) knowledge typesand/or knowledge datasets; (iii) data mining tasks; and (iv) data miningtechniques and applications used in knowledge management. The article firstbriefly describes the definition of data mining and data mining functionality.Then the knowledge management rationale and major knowledge management toolsintegrated in knowledge management cycle are described. Finally, theapplications of data mining techniques in the process of knowledge managementare summarized and discussed.
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