Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Overview

William J. Frawley, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Christopher J. Matheus After a decade of fundamental interdisciplinary research in machine learning, the spadework in this field has been done; the 1990s should see the widespread exploitation of knowledge discovery as an aid to assembling knowledge bases. The contributors to the AAAI Press book Knowledge Discovery in Databases were excited at the potential benefits of this research. The editors hope that some of this excitement will communicate itself to AI Magazine readers of this article. Computers have promised us a fountain of wisdom but delivered a flood of data. The size and number of databases probably increases even faster.