Association
Mining Variations
CMPS/EECE 619.11
(Advanced Topics
in Computer Science)
Course
Information (Fall 2009)
Instructor:
Dr. Ryan Benton
Lecture: To
Be Determined
Seminar: F
9:00-10:30 (mandatory)
Office: ACTR
205
Phone: (337)
482-1307
Email:
Textbook:
There are no designated textbooks for this course. Reading material will be
provided as needed.
Prerequisite:Consent of the instructor.
Additional Suggested Background: Students are highly
encouraged to have taken CMPS/EECE 566.
Other courses that will be useful are 508, 520, 521, 561and/or 588.
Course Description: This course will be covering various
association mining algorithms, including targeted, temporal and distributed
mining. In addition, an overview of
evaluation techniques will also be presented.
Throughout the course, various projects will be assigned, typically
implementation of the association mining algorithms and their evaluation. Prospective students should have a good
background in a programming language, such as C++, Smalltalk, JAVA, and so
forth.