Dependability in data mining: a perspective from the cost of making decisions

This study describes the cost involved in maintaining dependability that involves availability, reliability, and security. The comparison of the cost as well as the need to get additional data set to improve the predictive accuracy is fundamentally an economic and policy decision. It is also highly dependent on the nature of the task. For the tasks that deal with massive data sets and/or the tasks often require real time decision making are the ones that would benefit from the cost perspective.