TY - JOUR
T1 - Fleximine - A flexible platform for KDD research and application development
AU - Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, R.
AU - Domshlak, C.
AU - Gudes, E.
AU - Liusternik, N.
AU - Meisels, A.
AU - Rosen, T.
AU - Shimony, S. E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported in part by an infrastructure grant for data mining from the Israeli Ministry of Science.
PY - 2003/9/1
Y1 - 2003/9/1
N2 - FlexiMine is a KDD system designed as a testbed for data-mining research, as well as a generic knowledge discovery tool for varied database domains. Flexibility is achieved by an open-ended design for extensibility, thus enabling integration of existing data-mining algorithms, new locally developed algorithms, and utility functions such as visualization and preprocessing. Support for new databases is simple and clean: the system interfaces with a standard database server via SQL queries and thus can handle any application database. With a view of serving remote, as well as local, users, internet availability was a design goal. By implementing the system in Java, minor modifications allow us to run the user-end of the system either as a Java applications or (with some limitations on the user) as a Java Applet. This paper reviews the architecture, design and operation of FlexiMine and presents some of the new ideas incorporated in the data-mining algorithms (Association rules, Decision trees, Bayesian knowledge-bases and Meta-queries).
AB - FlexiMine is a KDD system designed as a testbed for data-mining research, as well as a generic knowledge discovery tool for varied database domains. Flexibility is achieved by an open-ended design for extensibility, thus enabling integration of existing data-mining algorithms, new locally developed algorithms, and utility functions such as visualization and preprocessing. Support for new databases is simple and clean: the system interfaces with a standard database server via SQL queries and thus can handle any application database. With a view of serving remote, as well as local, users, internet availability was a design goal. By implementing the system in Java, minor modifications allow us to run the user-end of the system either as a Java applications or (with some limitations on the user) as a Java Applet. This paper reviews the architecture, design and operation of FlexiMine and presents some of the new ideas incorporated in the data-mining algorithms (Association rules, Decision trees, Bayesian knowledge-bases and Meta-queries).
KW - Association rules
KW - Bayesian knowledge bases
KW - Data mining
KW - Flexible software systems
KW - Knowledge discovery in databases
KW - Meta-queries
KW - WWW-based tools
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1024487020329
DO - 10.1023/A:1024487020329
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038759226
SN - 1012-2443
VL - 39
SP - 175
EP - 204
JO - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
JF - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
IS - 1-2
ER -