777 Principles of Knowledge Mining (3:3:0). Prerequisites: INFS 614 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. A presentation of principles and methods for synthesizing task-oriented knowledge from computer data and prior knowledge, and presenting it in human-oriented forms, such as symbolic descriptions, natural language-like representations, and graphical forms. Topics include fundamental concepts of knowledge mining, methods for target data generation and optimization, statistical and symbolic approaches, knowledge representation and visualization, and new developments such as inductive databases, knowledge generation languages, and knowledge scouts.