Philosophies and Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery

Copenhagen, Denmark:  24th August 2005

THE PREFACE & PROGRAMME ARE HERE

This first PMKD DEXA Workshop is based is on the theses that:

1.  The data-mining "diaspora" can only really become a coherent discipline if clearly enunciated and extensive methodologies are developed for the core data exploration-mining process.
2.  Meaning can only be given to discovered patterns and relationships in the context of metadata ontologies. 
3.  Meaning can only be given to discovered patterns and relationships if we have a theory of knowledge which allows interpretation of discoveries in the presence of error, randomness and redundancies.

Hence the title for the Workshop. 

We aspire to the breadth and depth of Knowledge Discovery .
We need methodologies to bring the techniques together, 
    ....and we need philosophies to give meaning to data-mining results.