Data Mining Exploration System for Feature Selection Tasks

The area of data mining and knowledge discovery is inherently associated with databases. Data mining methods are used in the process of knowledge discovery to reveal new pieces of knowledge from large databases. One of the stages in that process is a feature selection. A feature selection is usually meant as a process of finding a subset of features from the original set of features forming patterns in a given data set, optimal according to the defined goal and criterion of feature selection. The aim of this paper is to present the main functionalities of the data mining exploration system (DMES) (P. Delimata, 2005) and to explain its usefulness to the feature selection tasks. The DMES is an integrated software system that incorporates many algorithms which can be used in data mining