User:Ruud Koot/Open source

Over the past decade tremendous progress has been made in data mining methods like clustering, classification, frequent pattern mining, etc. However, unfortunately, the advanced implementations are often not made publicly available, and thus the results cannot be independently verified. This hampers the rapid advances in the field. There is thus a critical need to have open source implementations of important data mining methods. This workshop is the first such meeting place to discuss open source data mining methods. Since the scope of such a workshop can be rather broad, we focus our attention in the first year to Frequent Pattern Mining (FPM) problems. In subsequent years we will focus on open source implementations for other data mining problems like clustering, classification, outlier detection, etc. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/OSDM05/