CS 230: Introduction to Intelligent Systems

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Welcome to CS 230, Spring 2014!
Course description: This course covers fundamental material on data mining and
knowledge discovery. Several data mining methods including decision tree algorithms,
association rule generators, neural networks, and Web-based mining are detailed. Rule-based
systems and intelligent agents are introduced as methods for building decision models.
Students learn how to use intelligent tools to help solve real-world problems.

Pre-requisites: CS 110 (Computer Science I)

Professor: Rebecca Bates (bates@mnsu.edu)
Contact Information
Course Hours and Location
Lectures/Lab/Discussion: M 23:50pm
W 2-3:50pm
F 2-2:50pm

TR C 128
TR E 315
TR E 315

Office Hours
Monday
11-12

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Friday
by
by
by
4-5
appointment
appointment appointment

Prof. Bates will also read and respond to email questions within 24 hours. You can
usually expect responses to questions the same day if received prior to 10pm. If things
that are useful for the entire class come up, they will be posted on the announcement
section of the class webpage so check it regularly.
Course Materials
Recommended Texts: Principles of Data Mining, 2nd. ed., Max Bramer, SpringerVerlag, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4471-4883-8 (soft cover) or 978-1-4471-48845(electronic)
Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach, M. Tim Jones, Infinity Science
Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9778582-3-1
Please purchase one of the books. Both are useful and will be used in the class so it
will be a good idea to pair with a classmate so you have access to both books.
Course Syllabus
Student Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

1. Define and understand basic data mining terminology.

2. Differentiate between supervised and unsupervised learning.
3. Understand basic supervised data mining methodologies used to solve
problems inductively. Strategies include: decision trees, rule based, concept
hierarchies, association rules, Bayesian Learning, linear regression, and neural
networks.
4. Describe basic unsupervised clustering techniques for solving problems.
5. Describe how to pre-process data prior to a data mining session.
6. Use statistical and heuristic methods to report the results of a data mining
session.
7. Use one or several data mining tools to perform both supervised and
unsupervised learning.
8. Know and define terms basic to artificial intelligence problem solving.
9. Understand and define basic expert system terms.
10. Design a solution to a problem using a knowledge-based system.
11. Understand how certainty factors are used with knowledge-based systems.
12. Know what intelligent agents are and how they are used to solve problems.
13. Describe agent environments and their properties.
Tentative Topic List
1. Intelligence (~1 week)
2. Data Preprocessing (~1 week)
3. The field of Artificial Intelligence (~1 week)
4. Agents & Environments (~1 week)
5. Statistical Approaches to Estimation and Prediction (~1.5-2 wks)
6. k-Nearest Neighbor (~1 week)
7. Decision Trees (~1 week)
8. Prediction & Classifer Performance Evaluation (~1 week)
9. Hierarchical and k-Means Clustering (~1.5 wks)
10. Uniformed & Informed search (2 weeks)
11. Fuzzy logic (1 week) Neural Networks (1 week)
Grading
Homework and Lab work: 45%
2 Midterm Exams: 35%
Final exam: 20%
Important Dates
Midterm 1: Wednesday, February 19
Midterm 2: Wednesday, April 2
Final: Thursday, May 8, 2:45-4:45pm
Course Tools

Orange DataMining Software. This will be available on lab computers. You

may also want to download and install it on your own computer.
http://www.ailab.si/orange/

Desire2Learn: This web-based software package will be used for turning in

programming assignments and feedback surveys. Additional readings will be
here.
The Computer Science Lab computers host these pages. The assignments and
handouts will be available here.

Other Information
CS 230 Handouts and Assignments

Additional Resources
Here is a listing of useful AI URLs (thanks to Prof. Roiger). The reference is listed
below.

http://aaai.org
http://www.aclweb.org
www.auai.org
www.cognitivesciencesociety.org
www.cra.org
http://cscsi.sfu.ca
www.flairs.com
www.iasted.org
http://cis.ieee.org
http://ijcai.org
www.inns.org
http://isai.cs.txstate.edu
http://www.sigart.org
www.kdd.org
www.maebashi-it.org/tcii/index.shtml
www.computer.org/portal/web/tcpami
www.kdnuggets.com

Majority taken from: Hamilton, M., Mitchell T., and Hamilton, C. (2003). AI
Matures and Flourishes in North America. IEEE Intelligent Systems, July/August,
87-89.

Page last modified by R.A. Bates on 05/08/2014 06:20 PM.