introduction
e-commerce has changed the face of most business functions in competitive enterprises. internet technologies have seamlessly automated interface processes between customers and retailers,retailers and distributors,distributors and factories,and factories and their myriad suppliers.in general,e-commerce and e-business (henceforth referred to as e-commerce) have enabled on-line transactions. Also,generating laege-scale real-time data has never been casier. with data pertaining to various views of business transactions being readily available,it is only apposite to seek the services of data mining to make(business) sense out of these data sets.