A Web Service-based approach for data mining in distributed environments

Data mining is usually associated with centralized data mining systems. Here we present an approach to develop a data mining system in distributed environments. The main difficulty in this approach is the unrestricted sharing of information and dynamic integration of components. In this paper, we present a Web Service-based approach to solve these problems. The system built using this approach offers a uniform presentation and storage mechanism, platformindependent interface, and a dynamically extensible architecture. To achieve it, techniques and languages such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI are employed. A prototype system for a classification problem solving service is described as an example of the proposed approach.