※ Advanced Algorithms (C2)

Time: Friday 14:00-17:00
Dr. Chien-Yu Chen (chienyuchen@ntu.edu.tw)

Outline: This course is basically about data mining, machine learning and statistical modeling from data, and some other algorithms and applications.

References: (reserved in the library of the Institute of Information Science)
1. First Course in Database Systems (3rd Edition, Ullman and Widom, 2007)
2. Learning from Data- A Short Course (Abu-Mostafa, Magdon-Ismail, Lin, 2012)
3. Learning Pattern Classification (Duda, Harg, and Stork, 2001)
4. An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods (Cristianini and Shawe-Taylor, 2000)
5. Convex optimization (Boyd and Vandenberghe, 2004; book and lecture slides available at http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/ )

Office hours: TBD

Grades: Midterm exam 50%. Final exam 50%.