This is the most recently posted announcement describing the formation of this group. The group will focus on soft computing approaches to database mining. The group is intended to be a communication resource. Database mining seeks to extract previously unrecognized information from data stored in conventional databases. Lawrence Mazlack has agreed to be chairman of this special interest group.
Databases have significant amounts of stored data.
This data continues to grow exponentially. Much of the data is implicitly or explicitly imprecise. The data is known to be valuable because it was collected to explicitly support particular enterprise activities. There could well be valuable, undiscovered relationships in the data. The issue is how best to recognize them.