Soft Computing Techniques and its Impact in Data Mining

With the rapid advancement in the field of Information Technology Software organizations are trying to use the strength of various emerging and powerful techniques such as Soft Computing techniques to develop/produce software products at minimum cost with maximum quality in terms of reliability, portability, accessibility, maintainability etc. In fact Soft Computing techniques and its impact as well as its new emerging trends to suit the changing requirements in the area of Data Mining have become the most important topic in recent times. These techniques are used widely for varieties of applications. The need for web intelligence, Internet based applications and the current research on soft web mining in recent times demanded our immediate attention for the development of much more capable and future generation Software systems and services. This includes emerging topics like data mining, Knowledge engineering, natural language processing, Computational intelligence, E-commerce, Bioinformatics and Cognitive computing. Development of such systems helps in addressing problems across different fields and assists in reviewing current progress in the field of Soft Computing and information processing. In the following section, the evolution of Soft Computing techniques, its development & application as well as its impact in Data Mining have been highlighted. Keywords—Computational Intelligence, Data Mining, Information Technology, Maintenance, Portability, Reliability, Reusability, Soft Computing, Web Mining.