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- 3/29/99
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- Press Release
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- Breakthrough Datamining Technology Announced
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- KnowledgeMiner is in use by NASA, Boeing, MIT, Columbia, Notre Dame,
- University of Hamburg, Mobil Oil, Pfizer Inc., Dean & Company and many other
- corporations, universities, research institutions and individuals around the
- world in many fields of human enquiry.
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- KnowledgeMiner Gold is the first choice in datamining because it provides
- the most objective, easiest, fastest and least expensive data mining
- technologies in the world. Also as it learns about a new dataset it
- generates equations, rules or patterns on the fly that model that data. It
- is knowledge extraction in its most advanced form. Mining data and striking
- gold is much more probable with a datamining tool like KnowledgeMiner then with neural nets, statistical programs or simple spreadsheets.
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- KnowledgeMiner can be downloaded from: http://www.scriptsoftware.com
- Included datasets and examples range from prediction of global temperature,
- stock market trends, medical diagnosis, failure of materials (like the
- Challenger Space Shuttle O-Ring), to party affiliation in the US congress.
- The many examples included with KM show its power to work on human issues.
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- KnowledgeMiner Gold from Script Software is the only dataminer that has
- Inductive Learning Networks (GMDH), Analog Complexing and Fuzzy Rule
- Induction in one application. As a prediction tool and also for educational
- purposes KnowledgeMiner has no equal.
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- KnowledgeMiner is a powerful, easy-to-use modeling and prediction tool which
- was designed to support the knowledge extraction process from data in a
- highly automated way. It works using three advanced self-organizing modeling
- technologies: Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), Analog Complexing and
- Fuzzy Rule Induction. This is the first time that all of these algorithms
- have been available in one place on any computer platform.
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- Built on the cybernetic principles of self-organization, KnowledgeMiner
- brings high-end modeling capabilities to your desktop without the need for
- an expert. It can learn completely unknown relationships between the outputs
- and inputs of a given system in an evolutionary way from a very simple
- organization to an optimally complex one by itself.
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- Why is KnowledgeMiner needed? There are two main reasons.
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- First because of the explosive growth of many business, government,
- scientific and personal databases. The flood of information has far outpaced
- our ability to interpret and digest this data. Huge databases like:
- -the human genome project
- -Mobil oil exploration info (100 terabytes)
- -NASA Earth Observing System (50 gigs/hour) and many others are all rapidly expanding the volume of info that is available to us.
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- Second because now there is a strong demand for a new generation of tools
- and techniques for automated and intelligent database analysis both on large
- and small datasets. Coupled with a growing desire by non-specialists for
- easy to use tools which don't require a lifetime of experience and knowledge
- to operate.
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- KnowledgeMiner has been used successfully for analysis and prediction in the
- fields of finance, economics, imaging, ecology, health, biotechnology,
- chemistry, math and many others. Professionals in many areas can benefit by
- downloading and trying out the examples then using this tool to mine their
- own field for new relationships.
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- In comparison with statistical modeling tools and neural networks
- KnowledgeMiner stands out as easier, faster and more applicable to a wide
- range of real-world problems since it creates the model structure or network
- topology automatically without predefinition. This makes KnowledgeMiner the
- least expensive and most effective modeling and prediction tool available on
- any platform.
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- KnowledgeMiner is a Mac only tool. Those without a Mac will want to buy a
- KnowledgeMiner workstation (any PPC Mac). This strategy allow the KM
- programmers to focus their energies on supporting the fast PPC and soon the
- PPC/Altivec processors to add more features and new algorithms. Be assured
- that there are many surprises in the pipeline.
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- Data mining, knowledge discovery, and decision support are becoming
- increasingly important for all areas of human activity. As an example look
- at El Nino. El Nino is now described as a minute temperature change in the
- ocean off of South America which strongly influences global weather. Last
- year we were all very impressed by the power of El Nino but until recently
- that data was buried in a mountain of other climatic data. How many other
- powerful influences on weather, politics, sociology, economy, energy,
- health, history, crime, etc. are hidden in the vast store of data we already
- have?
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- Specific questions like how national economies are interconnected and
- affected by local crises, how water quality and temperature is influenced by
- the environment and vice versa, how the population of a country or the world
- will change, how cancer can be detected and understood better or how credit
- card fraud can be detected are only a few of the applications that a tool
- like KnowledgeMiner can be used for.
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- Many people have wanted to learn more about self-organizing modeling and the
- basic ideas behind KM's modeling methods. Frank Lemke with Prof. Mueller are
- just finishing a book called "Numerical Insights into Complex Systems.
- Self-organizing Data Mining". This book covers several areas of knowledge
- discovery and introduces a spectrum of parametric and nonparametric modeling
- methods that are implemented or scheduled to be implemented in
- KnowledgeMiner - all of them for the first time on any computer platform.
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- KnowledgeMiner is evolving software. We offer a new version every few months
- at no charge to registered users. Please check our web site for more
- details.
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- Thank You
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- Frank Lemke Frank_Lemke@magicvillage.de
- Julian Miller julian@scriptsoftware.com
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