A Data Mining Framework Based on XML

The proposed framework is based upon a concept of building a configuration-driven data mining tool in which the maintenance decisions of aircrafts´ components are driven by configuration metadata. We seek to address a key design goal of building a generic framework that can be easily instantiated for various CBM applications. This design goal, in turn, raises the challenges of building a system that features modularity, extendibility, and maintainability. To meet this design goal, we adopted a layered architecture for the proposed framework.