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The Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination program is a scientific research program began in 2009. The objective of the KDD program is to enable an analyst to utilize large, complex and varied data sets that he has not seen before to produce actionable intelligence in a timely manner.
KDD tackles two significant technical areas: (1) how to quickly understand the novel data sets so that the contents can be correctly integrated with data sets that are already in use (this is termed "alignment"); (2) how to construct automatic analysis tools that are able to work effectively across multiple aligned data sets. KDD research results will be evaluated using realistic challenge problems throughout the program.