Purpose driven design of a KDD enabled application for experimental data analysis

The aim of this paper is mainly to present a way of designing a software application, where the final goal is to discovery new relevant (usually tacit) knowledge. A comparison of standard approach and proposed, problem driven design approach is also briefly denoted. The paper defines the need of general criteria that have to be met in the application development process and also components and functions that have to be present in the final deployed application. KDD (knowledge discovery in databases) process has specific steps that are usually omitted or disregarded, when considering application design for particular purposes. The most important factor is that the application has to be in compliance with the standard knowledge discovery process to ensure best practices, used in solving every KDD problem. As an example we have created a definition of such an application for the Laboratory of Intelligent Control Systems of Jet Engines (LIRS LM).