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Vol: 47(61) No: 1 / March 2002      

Mining Knowledge in Relational Databases
Cornelia Gyorodi
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrotehnics and Informatics, University of Oradea, Str. Armatei Romane 5, 3700, Oradea, Romania, phone: +40 (0) 59 432-830, e-mail: cgyorodi@univ.uoradea.ro
Stefan Holban
Computer Science and Engineering Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Bd. Vasile Parvan 2, 1900, Timisoara, Romania, phone: +40 (0)256 204-333, e-mail: stefan@cs.utt.ro, web: http://www.cs.utt.ro/~stefan
Robert Stefan Gyorodi
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, National Technological Park, Limerick, Ireland, phone: +353 (0) 61 212-095, e-mail: Robert.Gyorodi@ul.ie, web: http://www.ece.ul.ie/robert
Mirela Pater
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrotehnics and Informatics, University of Oradea, Str. Armatei Romane 5, 3700, Oradea, Romania


Keywords: Data mining, Knowledge discovery, DBMiner, OLAP.

Abstract
In recent years the size of databases has increased rapidly. For any database, the number of possible rules that can be extracted is far greater than the number of tuples in the database. Knowledge discovery is a multi-stage process of selecting interesting rules from the total rules of the total rule-space that exists within a database. In this paper we present the discovery process of various kinds of knowledge, at multiple concept levels, from large relational databases using DBMiner.

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