Therefore machine learning is one of the key areas in artificial intelligence. Machine learning is concerned with building agents that can learn in one way or another. Various techniques for learning will be surveyed in this course. In recent years, this has been the key topic of data mining. To realize this, it combines machine learning, statistics and database techniques.
Special emphasis is laid on analysing large datasets.
Techniques from data mining and their applications will also be surveyed in this course. Furthermore, techniques from the field of machine learning and data mining complement the more traditional data analysis techniques from statistics. Various applications in BioInformatics will be discussed in the course. In SS 2000, the course will be taught in English but students can ask questions in German.