Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery provides a new technique for performing data-mining over distributed databases. By combining techniques from Distributed AI and Machine Learning, software agents equipped with learning algorithms mine local databases. These agents then co-operate to integrate the knowledge obtained, before presenting the results to the user. We are currently exploring the use of ...

Business information received from advanced data analysis and data mining is a critical success factor for companies wishing to maximize competitive advantage. The use of traditional tools and techniques to discover knowledge is ruthless and does not give the right information at the right time. Knowledge discovery is defined as ``the non-trivial extraction of implicit, unknown, and potentially...

T he proliferation of powerful Web-based search engines that efficiently index and search large document collections has made it easier for the casual user to search and browse text documents on the Web. Although several portals provide comprehensive text information, we have yet to see a similarly comprehensive resource list for locating relevant information in streaming media, whether via sea...

As databases are pervading every parcel of reality, they record what happens in and around organizations all over the world. Databases store the detailed history of organizations, institutions, governments and individuals. An efficient and agile analysis of the data recorded in a database can no longer be done manually. Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) is a collection of technologies wh...

Knowledge discovery generally focuses on finding patterns within a reasonably well connected domain of interest. In this article we outline a framework for the discovery of new connections between domains (so called bisociations), supporting the creative discovery process in a more powerful way. We motivate this approach, show the difference to classical data analysis and conclude by describing...

Coping with complex and dynamic environments forces companies to invest in the resource knowledge for the maintenance of their operational reliability; they have to create and to renew the resource knowledge continuously. Elementary activities of knowledge management comprise collecting, organizing, connecting, sharing, and applying of knowledge. A necessary prerequisite before the outcome of k...

Scopus is a well known repository of metadata about scientific research articles. In this work, we gather data from this repository to create a social graph of scientific authors, starting from citations among their articles. Moreover, using data mining techniques, we infer some relevant research topics for each author, from the textual analysis of the abstracts of his articles. As a case study...