A method, system, and computer program product for allocating data mining processing
tasks that does not use complex internal schemes, yet results in better performance
than is possible with general-purpose operating system based schemes. The present
invention uses a data mining agent that operates autonomously, proactively, reactively,
deliberatively, and cooperatively to allocate and reallocate data mining processing
tasks among computer systems, and/or among processors. The data mining agent reacts
to its own environment, determines if a data mining activity can be completed as
expected, solicits bids from other data mining agents, determines if anther data
mining system could complete the data mining activity and migrates that data mining
activity to the selected data mining system.
