European
Project for Large Scale Data Mining
CRITIKAL, which stands for Client-server Rule Induction Technology
for Industrial Knowledge Acquisition from Large databases, is a
Pan European Project part funded by the European Community under
the Esprit Programme, with a combined investment of $2 million (1.5 million
ECU).
The partners in CRITIKAL:
- Lloyds TSB Group - the major bank, UK
- GEHE AG - the large pharmaceutical wholesaler, Germany
- PAC - the Parallel Application Centre, UK
- University of Stuttgart, Germany
- XpertRule Software, UK
The basic premise for the project is the real business need for tools
to enable in situ data mining against large databases in a client-server
environment. The technological basis for the work of the project is
XpertRule Software's mature, widely proven induction technology and its
newly released XpertRule Profiler client-server induction technology
which is aimed specifically at the data warehousing marketplace.
The objectives of the project:
- Demonstrate the potential for adding value to the information
assets of organizations in different sectors through effective
client-server induction from large corporate data warehouses.
- Develop and demonstrate an advanced client-server induction
system capable of supporting efficient, effective data mining
of large databases in business environments.
- Generate prototypes of a series of enhancements to XpertRule Software's
XpertRule Profiler product which are enabled by HPC (High Performance
Computing) technology and which are commercially exploitable during
the lifetime of the project.
- Generate a body of large-scale data mining experiences, from
both the financial and pharmaceutical wholesale sectors, which
will form the basis for generic dissemination and specific marketing
activities.
Product technology based on the results of the project will be
rapidly exploited by XpertRule Software both during and after the time
frame of the project. Products based on the software developed in
the project will have the potential to make a significant impact
on a huge world-wide marketplace which is eager to invest in demonstrable
capabilities. The end-users will provide advice and guidance to
XpertRule Software to assist the exploitation process.
The CRITIKAL project combines the technology and commercial exploitation
capabilities of XpertRule Software, the HPC application enabling skills
of PAC, the HPC research and the management decision support expertise
of the University of Stuttgart, and the experience of two very different
large database users - GEHE in the pharmaceutical wholesale sector
and the Lloyds TSB Group in the financial sector.
 The results of the two year
CRITIKAL European project where presented on December 9th, 1998
at the seminar on large scale data
mining at the Commonwealth Centre in London.
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