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This entry is from Winter semester 2016/17 and might be obsolete. No current equivalent could be found.
CS 591 — Knowledge Discovery
(dt. Knowledge Discovery)
Level, degree of commitment | Advanced module, depends on importing study program |
Forms of teaching and learning, workload |
Lecture (4 SWS), recitation class (2 SWS), 270 hours (90 h attendance, 180 h private study) |
Credit points, formal requirements |
9 CP Course requirement(s): Oral examination Examination type: Successful completion of at least 50 percent of the points from the weekly exercises as well as at least 2 presentations of the tasks. |
Language, Grading |
German,The grading is done with 0 to 15 points according to the examination regulations for the degree program B.Sc. Computer Science. |
Subject, Origin | Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science |
Duration, frequency |
One semester, each winter semester |
Person in charge of the module's outline | Prof. Dr. Alfred Ultsch |
Contents
To discover new, useful and for human experts understandable knowledge in data collections is a frequent task in research and application. It requires knowledge in statistics but also in methods of artificial intelligence (machine learning, expert systems, knowledge acquisition and processing). In particular, data-bionic methods borrowed from nature, such as neural networks, swarm systems and emergent self-organizing systems. The knowledge gained should be understandable for people as well as algorithmically usable in expert systems. The lecture conveys the knowledge from the mentioned fields necessary for such a knowledge discovery from databases.
Qualification Goals
The students shall
- learn scientific procedures for the investigation of data collections with the aim of discovering new and hitherto unknown knowledge,
- explorative statistical methods for the description and analysis of data, methods of visualization and projection of high-dimensional, different methods for clustering data and their peculiarities, methods of machine learning for the construction of classifiers, types of knowledge and expert systems,
- acquire knowledge of natural analog methods of knowledge discovery (neural networks, swarm systems, emergent self-organization),
- practice scientific working methods (recognizing, formulating, solving problems, training the ability to abstract),
- practice oral communication skills in the exercises by practicing free speech in front of an audience.
Prerequisites
Translation is missing. Here is the German original:
Keine. Empfohlen werden die Kompetenzen, die in den Basismodulen der Informatik vermittelt werden.
Recommended Reading
- D. Hand, H. Mannila, P. Smyth: Principles of Data Mining. MIT Press, 2001; T. Hastie , R. Tibshirani , J. H. Friedman: The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer, 2001; R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, D.G. Stork: Pattern Classification, John Wiley, 2001
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