IDM: an intelligent software agent based data mining environment

To remain competitive, managers are increasingly depending on intelligent systems for accessing, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting information from large and multiple data sources. These systems help make critical business decisions faster or with a greater degree of confidence. Data mining is a promising new technology that can bring business intelligence into these systems. This paper provides an overview of data mining, and the design and development of an intelligent software agent based data mining environment called IDM.