The group focuses on the following topics (and their combinations):
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases
- statistical association rule mining, in particular for medical and financial applications
- web content/structure mining, ontology learning
- reusing and sharing the data–mining task settings and results
- Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling
- domain ontologies and knowledge bases for the medical domain and for the World-Wide Web
- problem–solving methods
- Topic Maps
- Semantic Document Mark–Up, Semantic Web
- mark–up–based formalisation of medical guidelines
- mark–up of analytical reports from KDD
- automated extraction of web metadata
- semantic web services
- Intelligent Agents for Internet Access
- knowledge–enabled web services
- adaptive systems with hybrid reasoning
- Logical Foundations of Knowledge Engineering
- observational calculi for data mining
- fuzzy calculi
- non–monotonic reasoning