  Data mining is one of the most important steps of the knowledge discovery in
databases process and is considered as significant subfield in knowledge
management. Research in data mining continues growing in business and in
learning organization over coming decades. This review paper explores the
applications of data mining techniques which have been developed to support
knowledge management process. The journal articles indexed in ScienceDirect
Database from 2007 to 2012 are analyzed and classified. The discussion on the
findings is divided into 4 topics: (i) knowledge resource; (ii) knowledge types
and/or knowledge datasets; (iii) data mining tasks; and (iv) data mining
techniques and applications used in knowledge management. The article first
briefly describes the definition of data mining and data mining functionality.
Then the knowledge management rationale and major knowledge management tools
integrated in knowledge management cycle are described. Finally, the
applications of data mining techniques in the process of knowledge management
are summarized and discussed.
