Data Mining and Its Applications for Knowledge Management : A Literature Review from 2007 to 2012

Data mining is one of the most important steps of the knowledge discovery in databases process and isconsidered as significant subfield in knowledge management. Research in data mining continues growingin business and in learning organization over coming decades. This review paper explores the applicationsof data mining techniques which have been developed to support knowledge management process. Thejournal articles indexed in ScienceDirect Database from 2007 to 2012 are analyzed and classified. Thediscussion on the findings is divided into 4 topics: (i) knowledge resource; (ii) knowledge types and/orknowledge datasets; (iii) data mining tasks; and (iv) data mining techniques and applications used inknowledge management. The article first briefly describes the definition of data mining and data miningfunctionality. Then the knowledge management rationale and major knowledge management toolsintegrated in knowledge management cycle are described. Finally, the applications of data miningtechniques in the process of knowledge management are summarized and discussed.