Instructor: Prof. Zoran Obradovic www.dabi.temple.edu/~zoran
Office: 386 SERC, 1925 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Email: zoran.obradovic@temple.edu
Phone: 215.204.6265
Office Hours: Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 pm and by appointment

TA: Shelly Gupta
Office: 334 SERC
Email: shelly.gupta@temple.edu
Office Hours: Monday 10:00am-12:00pm and by appointment

Prerequisites: MATH 2043 and (CIS 2166 or MATH 2101 or ENGR 2011) and (MATH 3031 or ECE 3522 or STAT 2103 or BIOL 3312) and (CIS 1051 or CIS 1057 or CIS 1068).

Basic concepts and techniques for the automated extraction of interesting patterns in large databases. Topics covered include: association-rule mining, sequence mining, web and text mining, data warehousing, information filtering, classification and clustering analysis, Bayesian and neural networks, classification and regression trees, hypotheses evaluation, feature extraction, dimensionality reduction, singular value decomposition, data compression and reconstruction, visualization of large data sets, fractals in databases, and indexing methods that support efficient data mining and queries by content. Special emphasis is given in multimedia, business, scientific, and medical databases. Note: Students may not receive credit for both CIS 5523 and CIS 4523.

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