15.6. Related Work

The topic addressed by this chapter embraces two wide research areas: the research area of data mining and knowledge discovery, and the research area of XML data management. In both the areas, a large amount of work has been done, although the work in both areas has been rather recent (no more than ten years for data mining and no more than five years for XML data management). Therefore, when writing about this topic, it is difficult to be exhaustive.

The research community considers R. Agrawal's paper (Agrawal et al. 1993a) the work that originated the field of data mining: In that work the authors demonstrated that it is possible to extract patterns from large raw data with acceptable performance. The papers that followed ...

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