KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING at WPI

The common themes of the research projects in our group are data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Knowledge discovery is the process of finding general patterns/principles that summarize/explain a set of "observations". Very large databases have become the standard, making it impossible for human beings to mine the data "by hand" looking for interesting patterns. Automated tools are therefore needed to help during the extraction of these patterns. Examples of application domains include astronomical data from the Hubble telescope, data on consumer preferences obtained by credit card companies, medical histories, genomic data, web usage data, etc. More...