The amount of newly created information increases every year. Large-scale automation projects, the ubiquity of personal computers and the declining prices of storage are all factors that contribute to this trend. The huge amount of information has made it impossible for human analysts to gain a...

In information and data quality management, we need good tools and architectures. But, in order to achieve real productivity and quality improvements, the technology is not enough. Most of all we need the good attitude to deal with information. This paper introduces the concept of ‘information...

Data mining involves extracting interesting patterns from data to create and enhance decision support systems. Whereas in the early days of data mining, some tasks already relied on statistical and operations research methods such as linear programming and forecasting, data mining methods...