Today's economy is characterized by increased competition, faster product development and increased product differentiation. As a consequence product lifecycles become shorter and demand patterns become more volatile which especially affects the retail industry. This new situation imposes...

Distributed Data Mining is the process of extracting hidden knowledge from distributed data sources. A number of DDM architectures are proposed during the last few years. Recently, Optimized Incremental Knowledge Integration Distributed Data Mining model is proposed. It is a mobile-agent based...