From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Mar 19 16:38:59 2000 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:38:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mail System Internal Data Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0953501939 0000000000 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. From jjin@npac.syr.edu Thu Mar 2 18:03:00 2000 -0500 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: Received: from mailroom.ecs.syr.edu (ecs.syr.edu [128.230.208.14]) by postoffice.npac.syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07039; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:03:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from apollo.ecs.syr.edu (apollo.ecs.syr.edu [128.230.208.46]) by mailroom.ecs.syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13331; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:02:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:02:39 -0500 (EST) From: Amrit Goel To: cse791 , bauerm@mail.welchallyn.com, bfu@syr.edu, clin16@ecs.syr.edu, dave.depuy@alcan.com, david.a.lambrych@lmco.com, dawang@syr.edu, devaney@syrres.com, dwilkins@syr.edu, ggunduz@syr.edu, gwei@npac.syr.edu, hbalasub@syr.edu, hbulut@syr.edu, hlim@ecs.syr.edu, jjin@npac.syr.edu, kassay@twcny.rr.com, laura.a.hollister@lmco.com, mbaruah@syr.edu, mlshih@ecs.syr.edu, nmohan@syr.edu, pcheng@syr.edu, rprabhus@mailbox.syr.edu, sbalasub@ecs.syr.edu, sgothosk@syr.edu, tawu@syr.edu, thomas.secor@altavista.net, unger@syrres.com, yiyeh@syr.edu, yzhang05@syr.edu cc: Amrit Goel , Il Kyeun Ra Subject: CSE791 Assignments and memo Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 2612 Assignments and relevant notes for ECS 791 class. 1. Please complete Assignments 4 and 5 by the class on March 6, 2000. 2. On Monday March 6, I will go over additional material dealing with Neural Networks and Data Base perspectives on DM. 3. I will like to have an additional class on March 8, Wednesday. even if it is shorter that three hours. My hope is to finish remaining chapters from Weiss and additional material dealong with OLAP, DW, etc. 4. Those who cannot meet on March 8, please let me know so that I can arrange to meet with you at some other time. 5. I am planning the exam foe March 22 rather than March 20 so that t people who are away for the Spring break have time to prepare the material. If necessary, we can skip the class on March 20 so that students can concentrate on the readings. 6. On Monday we will also discuss the projects in more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Assignment No. 4 Due: March 6, 2000 Based on the NN material covered in the class on March 14, the papaer, Understanding Neural Networks....., and Knowledge Discovery Based on NN (handed out on Feb 28). ------------------------------------------------ Problem 1: Describe the general purpose of Neural Network models including any two applications. Problem 2: Describe neural network architecture including description of nodes, layers, connections,and weights. Problem 3: Describe activation functions. Use numerical examples for illustration. Describe in detail the Back Propagation learning algorithm as discussed in the Understanding NN.. paper. Try to derive all the expressions given ther for the simpler case of ONE OUTPUT. ------------------------------------------------------------ Assignment 5 Due March 6, 2000 This assignment is based on the handouts from Mannila tutorial and the paper Batabase perspectives on DM. ------------------------------------------------- Problem1: Describe the basic structure of the relational database including Tables, Rows , Columns. Explain why these Tables are called relations. Also describe what the rows and columns represent. Why is this structure called simple? Problem 2. Briefly describe the structure of SQL queries. Problem 3. The current database support for DM has been described as First Generation. Expand on this point. Problem 4 How is KDD query different from the usual SQL query? Problem 5 List the so-called short term goals for DB support of DM. Problem 6 List the so-called long term goals of DB for DM. -------------------------------------------------------- Problem 1.