FlexiMine – A Flexible Platform for KDD Research and Application Development

  • Authors:
  • R. Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary;C. Domshlak;E. Gudes;N. Liusternik;A. Meisels;T. Rosen;S. E. Shimony

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel E-mail: ehud@cs.bgu.ac.il;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

FlexiMine is a KDD system designed as a testbed for data-mining research, as well as a generic knowledge discovery tool for varied database domains. Flexibility is achieved by an open-ended design for extensibility, thus enabling integration of existing data-mining algorithms, new locally developed algorithms, and utility functions such as visualization and preprocessing. Support for new databases is simple and clean: the system interfaces with a standard database server via SQL queries and thus can handle any application database. With a view of serving remote, as well as local, users, internet availability was a design goal. By implementing the system in Java, minor modifications allow us to run the user-end of the system either as a Java applications or (with some limitations on the user) as a Java Applet. This paper reviews the architecture, design and operation of FlexiMine and presents some of the new ideas incorporated in the data-mining algorithms (Association rules, Decision trees, Bayesian knowledge-bases and Meta-queries).