EE4483/IM4483 Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining

EE4483 Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (EEE course code)
IM4483 Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (IEM course code)
Taken in AY 18/19 Semester 1

Course details
AUs: 3
Category: Major-PE (EEE/IEM)
Pass/Fail mod: No
2 hours lecture and 1 hour tutorial weekly.

Assessment
- Assignment #1 (10%): Individual or pair report
- Quiz #1 (10%): Short questions. Closed book.
- Project (20%): Individual or pair report. May have a little programming involved.
- Final Exam (60%): Closed book.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to AI: concepts and applications, Brief History of AI
2. KnowledgeRept+ Search; DS: Graph/Tree, DataDriven/Goal Driven; Backtracking
3. Breadth-First/Depth-First, Hill-Climbing/Best First
4. MiniMax, Alpha-Beta
5. Uncertainty Reasoning - Naïve Bayes Classifiers
6. Introduction to Data Mining: DM and applications, Association Rule Mining: Apriori

7. ARM: FP-Growth

8. Association Rule Evaluation

9. Classification - I (Decision Trees)

10. Classification - II (Neural Networks)

11. Clustering - I

12. Clustering - II

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My opinion:

AI and data mining are the hot topics now so its a very popular course among EEE/IEM. Most people who choose this course have interest in AI/Data Mining topics and/or programming. Not too math and programming intensive, for people who are wondering. For the first assignment, no programming involved, only research on a topic. For the project, there were 2 choices, both on classification but one of the choices was focused on convolutional neural networks (CNN), one of the core applications of AI used today. Don't need to have strong programming knowledge to complete the project. Personally for me I found such topics interesting (besides it being the 'in' thing), so I have decided to take this mod as one of my major-pe. Study hard. Not insanely difficult course but not easy to score well also.

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TL;DR: I recommend EEE students under Infocommunications Engineering track to take this mod. Good introductory to AI and data mining. But it is important to have interest in the topics.

Final grade: (I will not be putting up my core mod results, only my GER-PE/UE results!)