The previous decades have witnessed major change within the Information Systems (IS) environment with a corresponding emphasis on the importance of specifying timely and accurate information strategies. Currently, there is an increasing interest in data mining and information systems optimization. Therefore, it makes data mining for optimization of information systems a new and growing research community. This chapter surveys the application of data mining to optimization of information systems. These systems have different data sources and accordingly different objectives for knowledge discovery. After the preprocessing stage, data mining techniques can be applied on the suitable data for the objective of the information systems. These techniques are prediction, classification, association rule mining, statistics and visualization, clustering and outlier detection.
Data Cleaning in Knowledge Discovery Database-Data Mining (KDD-DM)