Views: Fundamental Building Blocks in the Process of Knowledge Discovery

May 2001

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2001)

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We present a novel approach to describe the knowledge discovery process, focusing on a generalized form of attribute called view. It is observed that the process of knowledge discovery can, in fact. be modeled as the design, generation, use, and evaluation of views, asserting that views are the fundamental building blocks in the discovery process. We realize these concepts as an object oriented class library and conduct computational knowledge discovery experiments on biological data. namely the characterization of N-terminal protein sorting signals, yielding significant results.