Uncertainty weekly
schedule
WF refers to the set textbook Data Mining, Witten & Frank
PP refers to the Powerpoint slides for the course, downloadable at ...
Week 1
Introduction to the course: PP slides 1-5
Introduction to data mining: WF Chapter 1
Week 2
Introduction to formal reasoning: PP slides 6-23
DM Concepts, instances, attributes: WF Chapter 2
Week 3
Information and the components of uncertainty: PP slides 24-41
DM Knowledge Representation: WF Chapter 3
Week 4
Quantitative approaches to uncertainty, Probability and Bayesian
Methods: PP slides 42-76
Week 5
DM Algorithms: The Basic Methods Chapter 4-1
Week 6
DM Algorithms: The Basic Methods Chapter 4-2
Week 7
Quantitative approaches to uncertainty, Dempster Shafer: PP slides 77-91
Mid-term test
Week 8
DM Credibility 5-1
Week 9
DM Credibility 5-2
Week 10
Qualitative approaches to uncertainty, Belief, conflict,
many-valued logics: PP 92-132
Week 11
Qualitative approaches to uncertainty Fuzzy sets PP slides 132-169
Week 12
Qualitative approaches to uncertainty Rough sets PP slides 170-208
Week 13
Revision
Week 14
Final test
Students present and hand in term paper