Knowledge discovery by probabilistic clustering of distributed databases

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-210

  McClean, Sally ^a   Scotney, Bryan ^a   Morrow, Philip ^a   Greer, Kieran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Distributed databases; Dynamic shared ontology; Probabilistic clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA WAREHOUSES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASES; DYNAMIC SHARED ONTOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; PROBABILISTIC CLUSTERING;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18844377659     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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