7. Academic Research Models

The efforts to establish a KDP model were initiated in academia. In the mid-1990s, when the DMfield was being shaped, researchers started defining multistep procedures to guide users of DMtools in the complex knowledge discovery world. The main emphasis was to provide a sequence of activities that would help to execute a KDP in an arbitrary domain. The two process models developed in 1996 and 1998 are the nine-step model by Fayyad et al. and the eight-step model by Anand and Buchner. Below we introduce the first of these, which is perceived as the leading research model. The second model is summarized