Describing the Data Mining Process with DMSL

The state of the art in the domain of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) and data mining (DM) has reached the point where the existence of various languages is becoming highly desirable. This paper presents an XML-based language called DMSL (Data Mining Specification Language). Its purpose is to provide the framework for platform-independent definition of the whole data mining process, and exchange and sharing of DM projects among different applications, possibly operating in heterogeneous environments. We assume that the reader is familiar with the notions of XML, knowledge discovery in databases, and data mining.