Data mining is a hot topic that attracts researchers of different areas, such as database, machine learning, and agent-oriented software engineering. As a consequence of the growth of data volume, there is an increasing need to obtain knowledge from these large datasets that are very difficult to handle and process with traditional methods. Software agents can play a significant role performing data mining processes in ways that are more efficient. For instance, they can work to perform selection, extraction, preprocessing, and integration of data as well as parallel, distributed, or multisource mining. This paper proposes a framework based on multiagent systems to apply data mining techniques to health datasets. Last but not least, the usage scenarios that we use are datasets for hypothyroidism and diabetes and we run two different mining processes in parallel in each database.
Introduction to the special issue on challenges in agent-oriented software engineering
