DM: OO-data mining (+ late introduction)

[Petko Valtchev]

Dear collegues,

let me first introduce myself.
My name is Petko Valtchev and I'm a Ph.D. student at INRIA, the 
French 
National Institute of Computer Science and Control. The subject of my 
thesis 
is the automatic building of class hierarchies within object-oriented 
data 
representations, i.e. OO data bases and OO knowledge bases. In a more 
general 
way, my research interests are spread over the discovery, the 
representation 
and the maintenance of the taxonomic structure of datsets of complex 
description like those represented as software objects (frames), 
conceptual 
graphs, description logic terms. etc. The underlying field could be 
qualified 
as data mining of highly structured entites or, alternatively as 
"knowledge 
mining" :-)

I'm looking for any works on mining of that kind of data, especially 
on OODB, 
and would appreciate any suggestions about where papers, 
bibliographies, 
glossaries, etc. relevant to the subject could be found. I would 
appreciate as 
well a possible exchange of some ideas and results with other 
researchers or 
developers working on similar problems.

Many thanks in advance,
Petko