Decision Support Systems

Objectives

Present algorithms that can be used for extracting knowledge from datasets. In particular, the course will cover the case of supervised learning.

General characterization

Code

200121

Credits

7.5

Responsible teacher

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Prerequisites

No

Bibliography

Machine LearningTom Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997.

Papers and materials provided by the professor.

Teaching method

Theoretical classes where the different techniques commonly used for taking profitable decisions are presented

Evaluation method

First epoch: two tests. The final grade is he average of the two tests. A minimum grade is required in both the two tests.
Second epoch: final written exam. 

Subject matter

Optimization problems: definitions and examples.
No free lunch theorem 
Local search techniques
Population-based optimization algorithms
Bio-inspired machine learning techniques
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Multi criteria optimization and Pareto dominance
Neural Networks