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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 545-0011/01
Abbreviation DBZN
Course title Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator Ing. Jiří Švub, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Knowledge Management - essential features in the application of company analysis
terms data, information, knowledge, organization division based on the type of knowledge,
they work. Stages of knowledge management.
2.Business Intelligence (BI) - explanation of the concept of integrating business
processes, data integration, enterprise integration with the surroundings. BI Architecture
Chosen by example.
3.Knowledge Discovery in Databases - explanations of concepts, characteristics
various stages.
4.Podstata data mining, important features, a description of the methods used.
Job Structure for Data Mining an example methodology SEMM.
5.Datové dice - store data in OLAP systems, database schemas,
techniques used for data analysis.
6.Profesionální systems for knowledge discovery in databases, an example
any practical application.
7.Stručná characteristics of mining unstructured data -
representation of the document as a vector.
8.Možnosti systems for searching unstructured data due
ability to understand the content of the text.
9.Used UB-tree search in a multidimensional vector
space.
10.Podstata warehouse, a dual approach to architecture, analysis
Fundamental differences between operating systems and data warehouses. Tools
used to build and operate a data warehouse.
11.Design data warehouse database schema - tables of facts and dimensions,
time factor, granularity of data.
12.Funkce metadata in data warehousing, administrative metadata, user
metadata.

Literature

[1]Fayyad M.U., Piatetsky-Shapiro G., Smyth P., Uthurusamy R.:Advances in
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, USA: AAAI Press, 1996
[2] Inmon W.H., Building the Data Warehouse, Third Edition, USA, Wiley
Computer Publishing, 2002
[3]Cook book Data Mining Using Enterprise Miner software: A Case Study
Approach published by company SAS Institute , February 2000

Advised literature

1. Cook book Getting Started with Enterprise Miner Software, Version 4.0
published by company SAS Institute , July 2000