Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
Hot Topic – Data Mining (DM), Knowledge
Discovery in Databases (KDD) and
Knowledge Management (KM)
•  As of 2002 fall, a quick Google search gives 700,000 web pages with the exact phrase match of DM or KDD and 900,000 pages of KM
•  Similar search through IEEE Explore and Web of Science discloses thousands of scientific papers published in research and application areas.
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•  Application Areas:
banking and credit bioinformatics
customer relationship                 Internet advertising
healthy care                                e-commerce
Insurance manufacturing
Marketing and retails                  communications….