A Survey on Pattern Application Domains and Pattern Management Approaches (original) (raw)

Data intensive applications produce complex information that is posing requirements for novel Database Management Systems (DBMSs). Such information is characterized by its huge volume of data and by its diversity and complexity, since the data processing methods such as pattern recognition, data mining and knowledge extraction result in knowledge artifacts like clusters, association rules, decision trees and others. These artifacts that we call patterns need to be stored and retrieved efficiently. In order to accomplish this we have to express them within a formalism and a language.