From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases

作者：Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Padhraic Smyth · 年份：1996 · 被引用次数：4645 · 研究领域：Data Mining Algorithms and Applications、Machine Learning and Data Classification、Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic

■ Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases have been attracting a significant amount of research, industry, and media attention of late. What is all the excitement about? This article provides an overview of this emerging field, clarifying how data mining and knowledge discovery in databases are related both to each other and to related fields, such as machine learning, statistics, and databases. The article mentions particular real-world applications, specific data-mining techniques, challenges involved in real-world applications of knowledge discovery, and current and future research directions in the field. Across a wide variety of fields, data are