Agent mining

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Agent Mining is a research field that combines two areas of computer science: multiagent systems and data mining. It explores how intelligent computer agents can work together to discover, analyze, and learn from large amounts of data more effectively than traditional methods. [1] [2]

Historical context

The interaction and integration between multiagent systems and data mining have a long history. [3] [4] The very early work on agent mining focused on agent-based knowledge discovery, [5] agent-based distributed data mining, [6] [7] and agent-based distributed machine learning, [8] and using data mining to enhance agent intelligence. [9]

The International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction [10] has been held for more than 10 times, co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Several proceedings are available from Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

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References

  1. "Special issue on Agent mining, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems". 2012.
  2. Cao, Longbing; Weiss, Gerhard; Yu, Philip (2012). "A Brief Introduction to Agent Mining". Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 25 (3): 419–424. doi:10.1007/s10458-011-9191-4. S2CID   7825848.
  3. Cao, Longbing; Gorodetsky, Vladimir; Mitkas, Pericles A. (2009). "Special issue on Agents and Data Mining, IEEE Intelligent Systems". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 24 (3): 14–15. doi:10.1109/MIS.2009.54.
  4. Cao, Longbing; Gorodetsky, Vladimir; Mitkas, Pericles A. (2009). "Agent Mining: The Synergy of Agents and Data Mining". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 24 (3): 64–72. doi:10.1109/MIS.2009.45. S2CID   15814593.
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  6. Klusch, M.; Lodi, S.; Moro, G. (2003). "Agent Based Distributed Data Mining". Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2586. pp. 104–122. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30501-9_11. ISBN   978-3-540-24013-6.
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