The class will be taught in a laboratory/lecture style, with at least 50% of the class time being used on group work. The class meets on a bi-weekly basis throughout the semester. Groups of two students will be formed in the class.
The number of students is limited to 12 (recommended group size 3 students) , as the class requires use of specific Java hardware, which requires time for installation, setup, and configuration. The quality of the class will suffer if the number of the number of three-person groups is above five due to the experimental nature of the class. The students will produce actual software systems, and this will require substantial per-group supervision.
E-learning: It will be natural to use Sitescape (CBS future e-learning platform) for discussion forums. In particular, the students will be asked to make their project ?electronic? such that other groups can see and evaluate the work. More traditionally, the e-learning system will be used for distribution of material to the students.

Work Required by Students
To spend time in the lab and working systematically with setting up their own open source distributed data mining system. Also, the students will be expected to create the mini-project content during the semester and present their code and programs during the semester.

Expected use of student work hours on the various activities in the course
? Homework (5 lectures of 12 hours): 60 hours
? Attending lectures (5 lectures of 6 hours): 30 hours
? Preparing presentations (2 presentations): 10 hours
? Writing mini projects (5 weeks of 20 hours):100 hours
? Preparation for individual exams (1 exam of 25 hours): 25 hours
? Total: 225 hours

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This is a course of exchange, that only MSc-students can sign up for. Interested Master, Diploma or single subject students have to sign up at DØK's student administration office, CBS.

Please notice, that the course takes place at CBS. The exact time of day etc. might be different from the below mentioned.