EMADS: An extendible multi-agent data miner

In this paper, we describe EMADS, an extendible multi-agent data mining system. The EMADS vision is that of a community of data mining agents, contributed by many individuals, interacting under decentralised control to address data mining requests. EMADS is seen both as an end user application and a research tool. This paper details the EMADS vision, the associated conceptual framework and the current implementation. Although EMADS may be applied to many data mining tasks; the study described here, for the sake of brevity, concentrates on agent based data classification. A full description of EMADS is presented. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.