Agent mining
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Agent mining is a research field that combines two areas of computer science: multiagent systems and data mining. It explores how intelligent computer agents can work together to discover, analyze, and learn from large amounts of data more effectively than traditional methods.{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Special issue on Agent mining, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/10458/25/3/page/1}}{{Cite journal |last1=Cao |first1=Longbing |last2=Weiss |first2=Gerhard |last3=Yu |first3=Philip |year=2012 |title=A Brief Introduction to Agent Mining |journal=Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=419–424 |doi=10.1007/s10458-011-9191-4 |s2cid=7825848}}
Historical context
The interaction and the integration between multiagent systems and data mining have a long history.{{Cite journal |last1=Cao |first1=Longbing |last2=Gorodetsky |first2=Vladimir |last3=Mitkas |first3=Pericles A. |year=2009 |title=Special issue on Agents and Data Mining, IEEE Intelligent Systems |journal=IEEE Intelligent Systems |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=14–15 |doi=10.1109/MIS.2009.54}}{{Cite journal |last1=Cao |first1=Longbing |last2=Gorodetsky |first2=Vladimir |last3=Mitkas |first3=Pericles A. |year=2009 |title=Agent Mining: The Synergy of Agents and Data Mining |journal=IEEE Intelligent Systems |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=64–72 |doi=10.1109/MIS.2009.45 |s2cid=15814593}} The very early work on agent mining focused on agent-based knowledge discovery,{{Cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=W. |last2=Edwards |first2=P. |year=1995 |title=Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery |journal=Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symp. Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments |pages=34–37}} agent-based distributed data mining,{{Cite book |last1=Klusch |first1=M. |title=Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining |last2=Lodi |first2=S. |last3=Moro |first3=G. |year=2003 |isbn=978-3-540-24013-6 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=2586 |pages=104–122 |chapter=Agent Based Distributed Data Mining |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-30501-9_11}}{{Cite journal |last1=Kargupta |first1=H. |last2=Hamzaoblu |first2=I. |last3=Stafford |first3=B. |year=1997 |title=Scalable Distributed Data Mining Using an Agent-Based Architecture |journal=Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 97) |pages=211–214}} and agent-based distributed machine learning,{{Cite book |last=Weiss |first=G. |title=Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents - AGENTS '98 |year=1998 |isbn=978-0897919838 |pages=226–230 |chapter=A multiagent perspective of parallel and distributed machine learning |doi=10.1145/280765.280806 |s2cid=2325739}} and using data mining to enhance agent intelligence.{{Cite book |last1=Symeonidis |first1=A. |title=Agent Intelligence through Data Mining |last2=Mitkas |first2=P. |publisher=Springer |year=2005}}
The International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction{{Cite web |title=ADMI workshops |url=http://www.agentmining.org}} has been held for more than 10 times, co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Several proceedings are available from Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.