Semantic Annotation and Services for KDD Tools Sharing and Reuse

Active KDD research groups typically make their software tools at disposal of others through the net. However, integration and reuse of these tools typically require a considerable amount of time to understand software scope and use, install it, transform data in a format compatible with the required input. This paper introduces a semantic based, service-oriented framework for tools sharing and reuse, giving advanced support for the semantic enrichment through semantic annotation of KDD tools, deployment of the tools as Web services and discovery and use of such services. A concrete implementation of the framework by Web service technologies is presented.