Course Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Note
1	3/3	Course introduction
	3/6	Overview of machine learning/data mining
2	3/10	Input: Concepts, Instances/Examples, Attributes/Features
	3/13	Output: Tables, Liner models, Trees, Rules, Instance-based representation, Clusters, Neural networks
3	3/17	Language, Platforms, Tools, Datasets Let’s use Scikit to demo a simple example.
	3/20	Training and testing, Prediction, Cross validation, Performance metrics
4	3/24	Methods: Decision trees, Random forests, Classification rules, Associated rules
	3/27	Linear regression, Logistic regression, Naïve Bayes	Paper assignments out
5	3/31	K-nearest neighbors, K-means clustering
	4/3	(No class today) Spring break holiday
6	4/7	Neural networks	Lab 1 out
	4/10	Support vector machines, Support vector regression
7	4/14	Reinforcement learning	Team’s membership due
	4/17	Ensemble learning, Bayesian networks
8	4/21	Network traffic classification	Starting this week, students will present assigned papers in the class. Each student has 25 ～35 minutes to present the paper, depending on the length of the paper. Q&A is 5 ~ 10 minutes.
	4/24	Network traffic prediction	Lab 1 due Lab 2 out
9	4/28	Network traffic routing	Team’s project/survey topic due
	5/1	Mid-term exam (2 hours, closed book)
10	5/5	Network resource management
	5/8	Network QoS and QoE management
11	5/12	Network congestion control
	5/15	Network fault detection	Lab 2 due
12	5/19	Network fault prediction
	5/22	Network Security: Intrusion and anomaly detection
13	5/26	Network Security: Spam emails filtering	Team’s mid-term project report due (5 pages long)
	5/29	ML applications to software-defined networks (SDN)
14	6/2	ML applications to Internet of Things
	6/5	ML applications to online social networks and in-network computing
15	6/9	ML applications to mobile and wireless networks: 5G networks
	6/12	Final project presentation (I)	Starting today, students will present final project results in the class. Each team has 15 minutes for the presentation and Q&A.
16	6/16	Final project presentation (II)
	6/19	Final project presentation (III)
17	6/23	Final exam (1 hour, open book)
	6/26	(No class today) Dragon Boat Festival
18	6/30	Semester ends (No class today)
	7/3	(No class today)	Final report (10 pages long) due 7/3 (Fri.) 23:59