Clustering of XML documents

Self-organization or clustering of data objects can be a powerful aid towar ds knowledge discovery in distributed databases. The web presents opportuni ties for such clustering of documents and other data objects. This potentia l will be even more pronounced when XML becomes widely used over the next f ew years. Based on clustering of XML links, we explore a visualization appr oach for discovering knowledge on the web. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. A ll rights reserved.