Course, master’s level
15 credits
Malmö | daytime | 50%
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025
Code for the course: DA631E

About the course

The purpose of the course is that the student acquires the basic methods and techniques in the field of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, with particular emphasis on practical use in the development of software for data science problems.

This course is offered as part of programme:

Course content

The course includes the following elements:

- Recommendation systems: user- and content-based recommendations, recommendation algorithms (such as neighborhood-based, collaborative filtering and matrix factorisation), context-aware recommendations, cold start, eliciting/implicit ratings, evaluation and metrics.
- Information retrieval, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and reasoning, the semantic web, constructing and querying knowledge graphs, extracting data from online sources and source alignment
- Probabilistic models and decision theory, decision making under uncertainty, optimisation, dynamic programming, methods for adversarial and heuristic search
- Practical methods for data mining
- Machine learning for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Algorithms for classification, prediction, and clustering.

Entry requirements

Bachelor of Science in computer science or related subjects.

Knowledge equivalent to English 6 at Swedish upper secondary level.

At least 15 credits in programming.

At least 7.5 credits in mathematics.

Course evaluation

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Contact

For more information about the education:

TSstudent@mau.se