Database, Data Warehouse, or Information Repository: These are collections of data that are cleaned and integrated for analysis.
Database or Data Warehouse Server: This fetches the necessary data based on the user's request.
Knowledge Base: This provides domain-specific knowledge to guide the search and evaluate the patterns found.
Data Mining Engine: A set of tools for tasks such as classification, clustering, and association analysis.
Pattern Evaluation: Measures how interesting the patterns are and refines the search to focus on the most useful ones.
Graphical User Interface (GUI): Allows users to interact with the system, make queries, and visualize results.