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The subject of this paper is the implementation of knowledge discovery in databases. Speciically, we assess the requirements for interfacing tools to client-server database systems in view of the architecture of those systems and of \knowledge discovery processes". We introduce the concept of a query frontier of an exploratory process, and propose a strategy based on optimizing the current quer...

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