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Title : MACHINE LEARNING and APPLICATIONS

Sub. Code : IS823 No. of Credits:4=4: 0 : 0 (L-T-P) No. of Lecture Hours/Week : 4

Exam Duration : Exam Marks: CIE +Assignment + SEE Total No. of Contact Hours :52
3 hours = 45 + 5 + 50 =100

Course Objectives:

1. To understand the basic concepts of machine learning along with decision trees.
2. To comprehend about neural networks and genetic algorithms
3. To obtain knowledge about various applications of machine learning.

Unit Syllabus Content No. of

No. Hours
1 Introduction and Machine Learning Basics:
Introduction: A brief overview of machine learning, Machine learning: what 11
and why? , Key tasks in machine learning, Why you need to learn about
machine learning, Steps in developing a machine learning application;
Supervised learning; Unsupervised learning; Some basic concepts in machine
learning.
Machine learning basics: Classifying with k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN),
Example: Using kNN on handwriting recognition system; Examples of
Machine Learning Applications, An Overview: Learning Associations,
Classification, Regression, Reinforcement Learning; Concept Learning.

2 Decision trees: Learning Problems, Designing Learning systems, 10

Perspectives and Issues, Concept Learning Tasks, Version Spaces and
Candidate Elimination Algorithm, Decision Tree Representation – Basic
Decision Tree Learning Algorithm – Heuristic Space Search.

3 Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms: Neural Network 10

Representation, Problems, Perceptrons, Multilayer Networks and Back
Propagation Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms.

4 Naive Bayes Classifier, Bayesian belief networks, EM algorithm, Evaluating 10

Hypothesis-Motivation, Basics of Sampling theorem, Comparing learning
algorithms, Instance based learning.

5 Applications: Social Network Analysis- Social Sciences and Bibliometry – 11

Evaluation of Topic Distillation- Measuring and Modeling the Web –
Resource Discovery –Topical Locality and Focused Crawling – Discovering
Communities- The Future of Web Mining; Machine learning in MapReduce;
Machine Learning Applications to Internet of Things (IoT); Machine
Learning for: Big Data, Smart Computing Environmental applications and
others.
Note 1: Unit 1 & Unit 5 will have internal choice.
Note 2: Three Assignments are evaluated for 5 marks:
Assignment – I from Units 1 and 2.
Assignment – II from Units 3 and 4 .
Assignment -III from Unit 5
Course Outcomes:

After the completion of the course, the students will be able to:

CO1: Explicate the learning techniques along with basic knowledge on machine learning.
CO2: Acquire knowledge on decision tree learning.
CO3: Apply and comprehend neural network and genetic algorithms techniques.
CO4: Attain knowledge about classifier and algorithms.
CO5: Elucidate various machine learning applications.

COs Mapping with POs

CO1 PO1,PO2
CO2 PO2,PO12
CO3 PO3,PO4,PO5
CO4 PO2,PO3,PO4,PO5
CO5 PO3,PO4,PO5,PO12

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Kevin P. Murphy, “Machine Learning A Probabilistic Perspective”, The MIT Press,
2012.
2. Peter Harrington , “Machine Learning in Action”, MANNING Shelter Island Publication,
ISBN 9781617290183, 2012.
3. Tom M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw-Hill Education , 2013.

REFERENCE BOOKS/ WEBSITES:

1. Ethem Alpaydin, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, 2nd Ed., PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.,
2013.
2. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman, “The Elements of Statistical Learning”,
Springer; 1st edition, 2001.
3. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jain/cse570-15/ftp/iot_ml/