Towards the integration of multiagent applications and data mining

Abstract

This chapter has the objective to present research on combining two originally separated areas, agents including distributed multiagent systems and data mining, which are increasingly interrelated. Recent research has present that such interaction features are bilateral and complementary, since new approaches and techniques are developed to benefit from the synergetic enhancement of intelligence and infrastructure for information processing and systems. This chapter draws attention to illustrate agent-mining interaction with two different domain multiagent applications: BioAgents at the bioinformatics area and MADIK at the computer forensics area. The presented case studies are driving forces towards the integration of the agent-mining challenging area. As ongoing research works we discuss the prospects of both agent-mining projects. © 2009 Springer-Verlag US.