UIDI005 Machine Learning and Knowledge Mining Methods

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: dzk.
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Petr Berka, CSc.
Institute of Computer Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The objective of the course is to get familiar with basic terms and methods of machine learning and knowledge mining which can be applied for the development of intelligent systems. The main emphasis is on symbolic methods of machine learning from data.
Syllabus
  • 1. The role of knowledge in intelligent systems.
    2. Resources for knowledge acquiring: experts, texts, examples of decisions, observation data.
    3. Methods of knowledge acquiring from experts. Knowledge modelling, the KADS methodology.
    4. Definition, goals and history of machine learning. Representation of knowledge and data, types of goal concepts.
    5. Computational complexity of algorithms of machine learning, the learnability theory.
    6. Quality of the acquired knowledge, the role of data and knowledge.
    7. Induction of the decision trees, induction of rules from data.
    8. The GUHA method, combinatorial data analysis.
    9. The set covering method. Concept clustering. Unsupervised learning.
    10. Learning of concepts in the first order language. Inductive logic programming.
    11. Connectionist learning. Genetic algorithms.
    12. Case-Based Reasoning. Knowledge mining from databases.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
A literature review of selected topics of machine learning and knowledge mining methods due to the teacher's selection related to the PhD thesis of the student. An oral exam - minimum success rate 50%.
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