An Integrated Environment for Data Mining

In the last years the size of databases, either scientific or business-like, has grown at a fast rate imposing a need for new generation techniques and methods to help data analysis and knowledge discovery. These methods and tools are object of study of a relatively new research area, called Data Mining. Aiming to help research in this area we are developing a free software integrated environment, called DISCOVER. This paper describes the approach we are using to integrate the components in that system as well as the development of what is considered a new user interface approach on this area.