An overview of the fast growing field of Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) and Data Mining and techniques of data mining are presented.
This paper presents an overview of the fast growing field of Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) and Data Mining. Data Mining and knowledge discovery have numerous applications in business and scientific domains. They improve effectiveness, efficiency and enhance the quality of decision making in business organizations and result in interesting discoveries in scientific research. Various techniques of data mining along with some related issues are also presented.