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Publication
SIGMOD/PODS/ 1994
Conference paper
Tutorial database mining
Abstract
We view database mining as the efficient construction and verification of models of patterns embedded in large databases. Many of the database mining problems have been motivated by the practical decision support problems faced by most large retail organization. In the Quest project at the IBM Almaden Research center, we have focussed on three classes of database mining problems involving classification, associations, and sequences. In this tutorial, I will draw upon my Quest experience to present my perspective of database mining, describe current work, and present some open problems.