The term mobile data mining is becoming prevalent as a consequence of research
and development in mining data streams from mobile devices. On another strand
of development Application Service Providers (ASP) hosting Internet-based data
mining services is being seen as a viable alternative for organisations that
value their knowledge resources but are constrained by the high cost of data
mining software. This paper advocates the paradigm of anytime anywhere data
mining services to facilitate delivery of data mining as a service in pervasive
environments characterised by ad-hoc task requests and need for almost-immediate
results. The proliferation of handheld devices and wireless technologies pose
new challenges and provide new opportunities for the analysis of data and the
delivery of results. We review the current state-of-the-art in data mining ASPs
in the commercial domain and discuss our research in enabling a virtual community
of data mining e-services. We evaluate the benefits and discuss the issues and
challenges in enabling anytime anywhere data mining services.