gps0@bunny.UUCP (05/05/87)
******* This is not a line-eater line ****** I am interested in extracting Knowledge from Databases. For example, by analyzing a medical database, a system can discover new effects of known drugs (such project was done by Blum & Wiederhold at Stanford, 1982); by analyzing the planet movements, one may discover Kepler's third law (this project was done by Kepler). A more prosaic application is analyzing a telephone company customer database to find what types of customers order what types of services. In general, the discovered knowledge may have the form of rules, functional dependencies, causal dependencies, or statistical correlations. A closely related topic is Statistical Expert Systems, which intelligently use statistical methods and packages to find statistical correlations in data. If you know of work in these areas, please email the appropriate references to me. I would be very grateful and will summarize the responces to the net. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro at GTE Laboratories. gps0@gte-labs.relay.cs.net ======== A standard disclaimer =======