edited by M.A. Bramer
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1999
eISBN: 978-1-84919-171-5 | Cloth: 978-0-85296-767-6
Library of Congress Classification QA76.9.D343K54 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 006.3

ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Modern computing systems of all kinds accumulate various data at an almost unimaginable rate. Alongside the advances in technology that make such storage possible has grown a realisation that buried within this mass of data there may exist some knowledge of considerable value. This could be information critical for a company's business success or something leading to a scientific or medical discovery or breakthrough. Most data is simply stored and never examined, but machine-learning technology has the potential to extract knowledge of value (i.e. data mining).