Pattern discovery: A data driven approach to decision support

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 114-124

  Wong, Andrew K C ^a   Wang, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Pattern Discovery Software Systems Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Data mining; Decision support; Event association; Pattern discovery; Residual analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; OPTIMIZATION;

PATTERN DISCOVERY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037319582     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.809869     Document Type: Article

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