May/June 2009 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Agents and Data Mining Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky and Pericles A. Mitkas In the last decade, agents and data mining have emerged as two of the most vigorous areas in information technology. The nature and complementarity of both areas foreshows an emerging trend - the increasing interaction and integration between agents and data mining. A symbiotic relationship could significantly strengthen each side's progress and trigger new R&D challenges and prospects toward the advancement of next-generation intelligent technologies and systems as well as the enrichment of integrated intelligence and other emergent aspects. Read More>> | |  | Mission Statement: IEEE Intelligent Systems, a bimonthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society, provides peer-reviewed, cutting-edge articles on the theory and applications of systems that perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently. The magazine serves software engineers, systems designers, information managers, knowledge engineers, researchers, and professionals in such fields as finance, manufacturing, medicine, defense, and the sciences. | | Subscribe to this Magazine |  | IEEE Computer Society Members get the best rates...Join Today >> |