Course Description
Course Description
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PROGRAM (S) TO
BE BS in SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
EVALUATED _________________________________________________
A. Course Description
(Fill out the following table for each course in your computer science curriculum. A filled-out form should
not be more than 2-3 pages.)
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Textbook Textbook:
1. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Jiawei Han and
Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2 nd
edition 2001.
Topics Covered in the Week 1 Introduction to Data warehousing and Data Mining:
Course, with Number of Why Data Mining is important, What is Data Mining,
Lectures on Each Topic What kinds of Data can be mined? What Kinds of
(assume 15-week instruction Patterns Can Be Mined?
and one-hour lectures) Week 2 Introduction to Data warehousing and Data Mining:
Technologies Are Used? Kinds of Applications Are
Targeted? Major Issues in Data Mining
Week 3 Data Preprocessing: An Overview, Data Cleaning,
Data Integration, Data Reduction, Data Transformation
and Discretization
Week 4 Data Mining Concepts: Data-Mining Roots, Data-
Mining Process, Large Data Sets, Data Warehouses
for Data Mining
Week 5 Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing:
Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts, Data Warehouse
Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
Week 6 Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing:
Data Warehouse Design and Usage, Data Warehouse
Implementation
Week 7 Data Cube Technology: Data Cube Computation:
Preliminary Concepts, Data Cube Computation
Methods
Week 8 Classification: Basic Concepts, Decision Tree
Induction, Bayes Classification Methods
Week 9 Midterm Examination
Week 10 Classification: Rule-Based Classification, Model
Evaluation and Selection
Week 11 Classification: Techniques to Improve Classification
Accuracy
Week 12 Classification Advanced Methods: Bayesian Belief
Networks, Classification by Back propagation
Week 13 Classification Advanced Methods: Support Vector
Machine, Lazy Learners (or Learning from Your
Neighbors)
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