Machine Learning

The main purpose of the course is to introduce theory and methods from machine learning and real-world applications from data mining. The technological development has increased our dependency on databases for storage and processing of information. The number and size of these databases grow rapidly. Due to this growth, it becomes more difficult to manually extract useful information. We therefore need semiautomatic and automatic methods to use, aggregate, analyze, and extract such information. Methods and techniques from machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence have been shown to be useful for these purposes.