Advances in electronic data gathering, storage, and distribution technologies have far outpaced computational advances in techniques for analyzing and understanding data. This created the need for models, tools and techniques for automated data mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). These terms indicate the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of data stored in computers, looking for the relationships and knowledge that are implicit in large volumes of data and are "interesting" for users.
Many industrial, scientific, and commercial applications need to analyze large data sets maintained over geographically distributed sites. The geographic distribution and the large amount of data involved often oblige designers to use distributed and parallel systems. The Grid can play a significant role in providing an effective computational support for distributed data mining and knowledge discovery applications. This talk introduces the KNOWLEDGE GRID, a Grid-based software system for geographically distributed knowledge discovery applications and presents the tools provided by the system to design distributed data mining applications on Grids. The main system components are discussed and the design and implementation steps of distributed data mining applications on Grids using these components are analyzed.
Domenico Talia is a professor of computer science at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy. From 1997 to 2001, he was a senior researcher at the ISI-CNR - Institute of Systems Analysis and Information Technology of the Italian National Research Council. His main research interests include parallel computation, parallel data mining, parallel programming languages, cellular automata, computational science, and grid computing. Talia is a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE Computer Society Press, the Parallel and Distributed Practices journal, the Future Generation Computer Systems journal, and the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal. In addition he is a member of the advisory board of Euro-Par conference series and a member of the advisory committee of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). He served as a distinguished speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program and in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program. He was guest editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Parallel Computing, and Future Generation Computer Systems and he is serving as a program committee member of several conferences. He published three books and more than 120 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Sprecher: Prof. Domenico Talia
Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy
Wann: Freitag, 02. Mai 2003, 15.00 Uhr (s.t.)
Wo: HS 2 Universität Klagenfurt