Knowledge Discovery Laboratory University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Computer Science
Knowledge Discovery Laboratory
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and collaborators.
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and presentations about our work.
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research focus.
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Proximity databases.

KDL investigates how to find useful patterns in large and complex databases. We study the underlying principles of data analysis algorithms, develop innovative techniques for knowledge discovery, and apply those techniques to practical tasks in areas such as fraud detection, scientific data analysis, and web mining.

KDL’s current research focuses on relational knowledge discovery — constructing useful statistical models from data about complex relationships among people, places, things, and events. Our Proximity software is the primary experimental platform for our research. New developments in this area are vital because of the growing interest in mining huge data sets drawn from the Web, telecommunications networks, relational databases, object-oriented databases, and other sources of structured and semi-structured data.
News— AIQ prototype software released • PROXIMITY 4.3 released • Matthew Rattigan gives talk at Microsoft Research • Matthew Rattigan accepts summer internship at Comcast Interactive Media Labs • KDL predicts NFL playoff teams • Jennifer Neville completes dissertation • KDL students publish papers at KDD 2006 • Andrew Fast attends Doctoral Consortium • KDL at NESCAI 2006 • PROXIMITY 4.2 released • KDL releases relational datasets • Ross Fairgrieve joins Google • Brian Gallagher joins Lawrence Livermore • PROXIMITY 4.1 released • Marc Maier joins lab • KDL, NASD collaboration appears in the news • Lab's research on 'six degrees of separation' phenomenon gains media attention • Brian J. Taylor joins the lab • NASD publicizes collaboration with KDL • Students invited to Doctoral Consortium • Students publish papers at 2005 conferences • Collaboration with NASD to prevent securities fraud • Collaboration with the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics • PROXIMITY 4.0 released • PROXIMITY 3.1 released • Amy McGovern joins faculty at University of Oklahoma • PROXIMITY 3.0 released • Dan Corkill joins the lab • Cindy Loiselle joins the lab • ITR grant from NSF • Open source version of Proximity announced • Pippin Wolfe joins the lab • Students and staff present seven papers at ICML and SIGKDD 2003 • KDL wins major data mining competition • older news...
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