Proceedings of the 26th Academic Council held on 18.5.

2012

Programme Elective 
 
  CSC318 DATA MINING  LTPC 
3003
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Course Prerequisites:   Fundamentals of Data Base Management Systems
Objectives:  
To describe and utilize a range of techniques for designing data mining systems.
Expected Outcome:
The students will be able to use the various techniques in data mining.

Unit No. I  Data Mining Introduction    10 hours 

Introduction to Data Mining – Data Mining Functionalities – Classification of Data
Mining systems, Major issues in Data mining.
Unit No. II  Data Mining Primitives, Languages & System    12 hours 
Architecture 
Data Mining primitives: Task – relevant data – kind of knowledge to be mined –
Background knowledge – interestingness measures– presentation & visualization of
discovered pattern - Data Mining Query language – Designing Graphical User interfaces
based on DMQL - Architecture of Data mining.
Unit No. III  Association Rule Mining    13 hours 
Basic concepts – market basket analysis - Mining single dimensional Boolean
association rules from transactional databases. Classification & prediction: What’s
classification - issues regarding classification and prediction – Bayesian classification –
prediction: linear – non linear.
Unit No. IV  Cluster Analysis    10 hours 
Types of Data in cluster analysis - Major clustering methods. Data mining applications.

Textbooks 
1. Han J. & Kamber, M, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, Morgan Kaufmann,
2005.
2. Immon.W.H., “Building the Data Warehouse”, Wiley Dream Tech, 3rd Edition, 2003.
3. Anahory S., Murray, D, “Data Warehousing in the Real World”, Addison Wesley, 1st
Edition, 2009.
Reference Book:  
1. Paulraj Punniah : Data Warehousing , fundamentals for IT professionals, 2nd edition.

Mode of Evaluation:  Written examinations, seminar, assignments, surprise

tests and quizzes.

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Board of Studies on 
 
Date of Approval by the 
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