Justification and hypothesis selection in data mining

Abstract

Data mining is an instance of the inductive methodology. Many philosophical considerations for induction can also be carried out for data mining. In particular, the justification of induction has been a long-standing problem in epistemology. This article is a recast of the problem in the context of data mining. We formulate the problem precisely in the rough set-based decision logic and discuss its implications for the research of data mining.