Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Master

SUBJECT

Code
Subject
MML1017 Knowledge Discovery and WEB Semantics
Section
Semester
Hours: C+S+L
Category
Type
Intelligent Systems - in English
2
2+1+0
speciality
compulsory
Teaching Staff in Charge
Lect. SACAREA Cristian, Ph.D.,  csacareamath.ubbcluj.ro
Aims
• Making available a broad range of methods for Knowledge Representation and Processing, and Knowledge Engineering.
• To discover the underlying formal structure of knowledge, to derive knowledge.
• Knowledge landscape paradigm.
• To develop the student@s ability to understand the problems involved in the formalization of informal data.
• To teach practical skills for representing knowledge by computers.
• To provide practical experience with techniques of structuring graphical representations.
• To provide techniques for preprocessing data sets, including the concept of a Data Warehouse
• To provide models for automatically learning methods.
Content
• Introduction: Conceptual Knowledge Processing
• Conceptual Theory Building
• Formal Concept Analysis
• Conceptual Graphs
• Power Context Families
• Ontologies
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases
• Decision Trees
• Neuronal networks
• Association rules
• Knowledge Representation
• Semantic Web
• Applications
References
1. M. Ester und J. Sander: Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Springer-Verlag, 2000.
2. U. M. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth and R. Uthurasamy: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Cambridge , London . MIT Press, 1996.
3. Frank Vogt, Formal Concept Analysis with C++, Springer, 1996
4. Rokia Missaoui, Jürg Schmid, eds., Formal Concept Analysis, Springer LNAI 3874, 2006.
5. B. Ganter, R. Wille, Formal Concept Analysis, Mathematical Foundations, Springer 2000.
6. G. Antoniou, F. van Harmelen: A Semantic Web Primer. MIT Press, Cambridge 2004.
7. Online Course in Knowledge Representation using Conceptual Graphs, Aalborg University@s Department of Communication.
8. J. Sowa: Knowledge Representation, Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations. Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove 2000.

Assessment
The activity ends with a written final exam (grade E) and a practical project during the semester (grade P). The exam subjects have theoretical questions from all the studied topics, and one problem, among the problems studied at the course and seminar. The final grade arithmetical mean of the two grades mentioned above, conditioned by all the grades being at least 5. Otherwise, the exam will not be passed. The final grade = (E + P)/2.
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