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Mathematics for Knowledge Processing

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Course Unit Code460-4066/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated6 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SNE10Mgr. Pavla Dráždilová, Ph.D.
Summary
The course provides the students with basic mathematical methods for data analysis. Lectures provide the students the teoretical backgroud for independent work. Tutorials offer space for discussing the issues, problem solution demonstration and illustrative examples exercising.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Graduate Course gives the following knowledge and skills:
basic theoretical background for data analysis,
implementation and application of selected methods.
Course Contents
1) Relations and their properties. Ordering, equivalence, tolerance
2) Algebra, operations, morphisms and congruences
3) Graphs and hypergraphs
4) Ordered sets
5) Lattices and other algebras with two operations
6) Conceptual lattices
7) Association rules
8) Rough sets and fuzzy sets
9) Metrics, ultrametrics and dissimilarities
10) Metric and topological spaces
11) Dimension and curse of dimensionality
12) Clustering I
13) Clustering II, quality of clustering
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
1. Dan A Simovici; Chabane Djeraba. Mathematical tools for data mining : set theory, partial orders, combinatorics. Springer, 2008.
2. David Skillicorn. Understanding Complex Datasets: Data Mining with Matrix Decompositions, Chapman & Hall, 2007.
2. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer; Corr. 3rd edition, 2009.
1. Dan A Simovici; Chabane Djeraba. Mathematical tools for data mining : set theory, partial orders, combinatorics. Springer, 2008.
2. David Skillicorn. Understanding Complex Datasets: Data Mining with Matrix Decompositions, Chapman & Hall, 2007.
3. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer; Corr. 3rd edition, 2009.

Recommended Reading:
1. Eldén, L., Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition, SIAM 2007.
1. Eldén, L., Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition, SIAM 2007.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit40 (40)20
                Credit testWritten test19 10
                Online testsWritten test21 0
        ExaminationExamination60 (60)20
                TestWritten examination40 20
                Oral examinationOral examination20 0