Knowledge actionability: Satisfying technical and business interestingness

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 496-514

  Cao, Longbing ^a   Luo, Dan ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actionable knowledge; Business decision making; Data mining; Domain driven data mining; Technical interestingness

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649104062     PISSN: 17438187     EISSN: 17438195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2007.016385     Document Type: Article

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