This subject looks primarily at artificial intelligence approaches to data mining. This subject is part of the Intelligent Systems cluster. It can lead to minor theses in neural networks, data mining and machine learning. Students will also have gained experience in using a systematic, disciplined approach to solving difficult problems using advanced software and experience in forming hypotheses, running experiments and critically analysing the results. This subject consists of lectures, tutorials and laboratory classes.
Students learn the subject matter through a mixture of lectures, tutorials and laboratories.
New material relating to theory, algorithms and practice of data mining will be presented in the lectures. Tutorials will consist of discussions of practice problems and exercises relating to the lectures. Tutorial problems will be handed out one week and discussed in the following week. Students are expected to work on the problems prior to attending tutorials. The laboratories are for running programs and software which implement the algorithms and methods discussed in the lectures.