WRAPPING LEGACY CODE FOR A SERVICE ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SUPPORT SYSTEM ABSTRACT.pdf

WRAPPING LEGACY CODE FOR A SERVICE ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SUPPORT SYSTEM Claudia Diamantini, Domenico Potena, Maurizio Panti Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dellAutomazione Università Politecnica delle Marche - Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy {diamanti,potena,panti}@diiga.univpm.it ABSTRACT A Knowledge Discovery Support System (KDSS) is a complete, integrated environment providing a number of facilities to effectively design a process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). The recent shift towards network organizations, and the dynamism of the KDD field, where new algorithms and techniques are developed continuously, lead to the design of open, modular and flexible service oriented KDSS. In this paper, we briefly present the architecture of the Service Oriented KDSS under development at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, and we introduce a wrapping service which is devoted to the automatic creation of specific wrappers encapsulating KDD tools, so that they can be viewed and exploited as services. In this way, new KDD tools, developed by third party and available on the Web, can be easily added to the KDSS, making it a truly open and extensible environment. KEYWORDS Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Web Services, Wrapping Legacy Code. 1. INTRODUCTION A Knowledge Discovery Support System (KDSS) is a complete, integrated environment providing a number of facilities to effectively design a process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). The main motivation for developing a KDSS is to enhance the user productivity by giving it a flexible and user-friendly environment, where the user can choose among the greatest number of software tools, either on the basis of his own experience in the KDD field or by exploiting the guidance of the system, compose them in a simple way, without worrying about input/output conversion, manage results and alternative process prototypes etc., so that the user