API Standardization Efforts for Data Mining

Abstract

Data mining technology just recently became actually usable in real-world scenarios. At present, the data mining models generated by commercial data mining and statistical applications are often used as components in other systems in such fields as customer relationship management, risk management or processing scientific data. Therefore, it seems to be natural that most data mining products concentrate on data mining technology rather than on the easy-to-use, scalability, or portability. It is evident that employing common standards greatly simplifies the integration, updating, and maintenance of applications and systems containing components provided by other producers (Grossman, Hornick, & Meyer, 2002). Data mining models generated by data mining algorithms are good examples of such components.