Fleximine - A flexible platform for KDD research and application development

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 175-204

  Ben Eliyahu Zohary, R ^a   Domshlak, C ^a   Gudes, E ^a   Liusternik, N ^a   Meisels, A ^a   Rosen, T ^a   Shimony, S E ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Association rules; Bayesian knowledge bases; Data mining; Flexible software systems; Knowledge discovery in databases; Meta queries; WWW based tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038759226     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024487020329     Document Type: Review

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