This paper describes a software tool DBMine, developed to assist indus
trial engineers in data mining. This tool implements three common data
mining methodologies: Bacon's algorithm, Decision Trees and DB-Learn.
Implemented in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0(C), DBMine, can utilize dat
a in Microsoft Access 2.0(C) and in Watcom SQL(C) databases. This pape
r will also present an example session in which job shop sequences pro
duced by a Genetic Algorithm are explored for regularity. (C) 1997 Els
evier Science Ltd.