Knowledge discovery is a time-consuming and space intensive endeavor. By distributing such an endeavor, we can diminish both
time and space. System INDED(pronounced “indeed”) is an inductive implementation that performs rule discovery using the techniques of inductive logic
programming and accumulates and handles knowledge using a deductive nonmonotonic reasoning engine. We present four schemes
of transforming this large serial inductive logic programming (ILP) knowledge-based discovery system into a distributed ILP
discovery system running on a Beowulf cluster. We also present our data partitioning algorithm based on locality used to accomplish
the data decomposition used in the scenarios.
This work is partially supported under Grant 9806184 of the National Science Foundation.