Employing Inductive Databases in Concrete Applications

In this paper we present the application of the inductive database approach to two practical analytical case studies: Web usage mining in Web logs and financial data. As far as concerns the Web domain, we have considered the enriched XML Web logs, that we call conceptual logs, produced by specific Web applications. These ones have been built by using a conceptual model, namely WebML, and its accompanying CASE tool, WebRatio. The Web conceptual logs integrate the usual information about user requests with meta-data concerning the Web site structure. As far as concerns the analysis of financial data, we have considered the trade stock exchange index Dow Jones and studied its component stocks from 1997 to 2002 using the so-called technical analysis. Technical analysis consists in the identification of the relevant (graphical) patterns that occur in the plot of evolution of a stock quote as time proceeds, often adopting different time granularities. On the plots the correlations betwe...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CINQ
• Authors: Rosa Meo, Pier Luca Lanzi, Maristella Matera, Danilo Careggio, Roberto Esposito
• Keywords: CINQ 2004, Database, Stocks, Technical Analysis, Web Logs