An overview of the use of neural networks for data mining tasks

  • Authors:
  • Frederic Stahl;Ivan Jordanov

  • Affiliations:
  • Bournemouth University, The School of Design, Engineering & Computing, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom;Bournemouth University, The School of Design, Engineering & Computing, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In the recent years, the area of data mining has been experiencing considerable demand for technologies that extract knowledge from large and complex data sources. There has been substantial commercial interest as well as active research in the area that aim to develop new and improved approaches for extracting information, relationships, and patterns from large datasets. Artificial neural networks (NNs) are popular biologically-inspired intelligent methodologies, whose classification, prediction, and pattern recognition capabilities have been utilized successfully in many areas, including science, engineering, medicine, business, banking, telecommunication, and many other fields. This paper highlights from a data mining perspective the implementation of NN, using supervised and unsupervised learning, for pattern recognition, classification, prediction, and cluster analysis, and focuses the discussion on their usage in bioinformatics and financial data analysis tasks. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.