A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to a variety of science user scenarios with a VO are reviewed. 1 Science Requirements for Data Mining What is data mining and why is applicable to scientific r...

Astronomical data sets have experienced an unprecedented and continuing growth in the volume, quality, and complexity over the past few years, driven by the advances in telescope, detector, and computer technology. Like many other fields, astronomy has become a very data rich science. Information content measured in multiple Terabytes, and even larger, multi Petabyte data sets are on the horizo...

A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to a variety of science user scenarios with a VO are reviewed. 1 Science Requirements for Data Mining What is data mining and why is applicable to scientific r...