A Middleware for Developing Parallel Data Mining Applications
Ruoming Jin, Gagan Agrawal · 2001
1 Introduction Data mining is an interdisciplinary field, having applications in diverse areas like bioinformatics, medical informatics, scientific data analysis, financial analysis, consumer profiling, etc. In each of these application domains, the amount of data available for analysis has exploded in recent years, making the scalability of data mining implementations a critical factor. To this end, parallel versions of most of the well-known data mining techniques have been developed in recent years. However, the expertise and effort currently required in implementing, maintaining, and performance tuning a parallel data mining application is a severe impediment in the wide use of parallel computers for scalable data mining.