'Periodica Polytechnica Budapest University of Technology and Economics'
Abstract
Development of new products with the given properties from the known raw
materials is one of the common research tasks in process engineering.
Usually the first step of research is a literature survey based on the
search for the specific keywords. Nowadays there exist many vast databases
of articles and patents, and the traditional, keywords-based, searching
tools are not always sufficient to find the desired information. The main
objective of this paper is to develop methodology for identification of new
materials, based on knowledge discovery. As an example, the proposed
methodology is applied for identification of new enzyme of microbial origin
capable of polymerizing lactose in aqueous solution, with the number of
required criteria