Improving Distributed Data Mining Techniques by Means of a Grid Infrastructure

摘要

Nowadays, the process of data mining is one of the most important topics in scientific and business problems. There is a huge amount of data that can help to solve many of these problems. However, data is geographically distributed in various locations and belongs to several organizations. Furthermore, it is stored in different kind of systems and it is represented in many formats. In this paper, different techniques have been studied to make easier the data mining process in a distributed environment. Our approach proposes the use of grid to improve the data mining process due to the features of this kind of systems. In addition, we show a flexible architecture that allows data mining applications to be dynamically configured according to their needs. This architecture is made up of generic, data grid and specific data mining grid services.