CSE3320

Machine learning ( 6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: TBA

Offered:
Not offered in 2005.

Synopsis: Contending approaches to the computational modelling of learning, the applications to which they are suited and their growing use in 'mining' the data in very large corporate and governmental databases. Topics include the need for extracting patterns from databases to support business decision making; the nature of learning and its computational modelling; symbolic approaches to machine learning; scientific discovery; information-theoretic classification; Bayesian learning; minimum encoding methods; evolutionary methods and artificial life; neural networks.

Assessment: Examination (3 hours): 50% + Programming project: 50%

Contact Hours: Two 1-hour lectures per week

Corequisites: CSE2309 or CSE3309 or CSC2091 or CSC3091