Pattern-Base Management Systems (PBMS)

The new era in knowledge, information and pattern management

Patterns are extracted from large data collections and they represent information and knowledge regarding specific data attributes and features. Scientists and end users of various applications are interested in these patterns and they use data mining techniques to extract them. As patterns are getting more complicated and end users are interested in a lot of different patterns, the need for pattern management is emerging. A Pattern Base Management System (PBMS) is a system for handling patterns as a Database Management System (DBMS) handles data.

A PBMS stores patterns extracted from Data sources and the user can query and retrieve stored patterns along with information related to them like the data mining algorithm that have been used and the data source used. More details about the features of a PBMS can be found here.

Part of the research around PBMS is dealing with the integration of PBMS and the domain knowledge using ontologies. These issues are discussed here.

Last updated 2006-03-14