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Terminated in academic year 2024/2025

Knowledge mining

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-9981/01
Abbreviation VZ
Course title Knowledge mining
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Hudec

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction into knowledge discovery (definition, relation to the other scientific disciplines, basic concepts).
2. Data types (numeric, categorical, text, fuzzy data, mixed data types). Logical and statistical view on data and on interpreting knowledge
3. Steps of knowledge discovery: data pre-processing, data cleaning, mining and interpreting results.
4. Correlation and causality, functional and flexible functional dependencies.
5. Computational intelligence in knowledge discovery from the data.
6. Classification, association rules, decision trees.
7. Statistical and logical data summaries
8. Data visualization.
9. Mining knowledge from time series.
10. Machine learning in knowledge discovery (types of learning and their properties, data, evaluation of results).

E-learning

Students have all relevant presentations from lectures and instructions in LMS Moodle

Literature

SKANSI, Sandro. Introduction to Deep Learning. Cham: Springer, 2018. ISBN978-3-319-73003-5 .
HUDEC, Miroslav. Fuzziness in Information Systems - How to Deal with Crisp and Fuzzy Data in Selection, Classification, and Summarization. Cham: Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-42516-0.

Advised literature

AGGRAWAL, C. Data Mining: The Textbook. Cham: Springer, 2015 ISBN 978-3-319-14141-1 .