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Fundamenta Informaticae 90 (2009) 395–426 395 DOI 10.3233/FI-2009-0026 IOS Press 3DM: Domain-oriented Data-driven Data Mining Guoyin Wang∗† and Yan Wang‡ Institute of Computer Science and Technology Chongqing University, of Posts and Telecommunications Chongqing, 400065, P.R.China wanggy@ ; wangyan@ Abstract. Recent developments in computing, communications, digital storage technologies, and high-throughput data-acquisition technologies, make it possible to gather and store incredible vol- umes of data. It creates unprecedented opportunities for knowledge discovery large-scale database. Data mining technology is a useful tool for this task. It is an emerging area of computational in- telligence that offers new theories, techniques, and tools for processing large volumes of data, such as data analysis, decision making, etc. There are countless researchers working on designing effi- cient data mining techniques, methods, and algorithms. Unfortunately, most data mining researchers pay much attention to technique problems for developing data mining models and methods, while little to basic issues of data mining. What is data mining? What is the product of a data mining process? What are we doing in a data mining process? What is the rule we would obey in a data mining process? What is the relationship between the prior knowledge of domain experts and the knowledge mind from data? In this paper, we will address these basic issues of data mining from the viewpoint of informatics[1]. Data is taken as a manmade format for encoding knowledge about the natural world. We take data mining as a process of knowledge transformation. A domain-oriented data-driven data mining (3