8- List of Textbooks and References:

 a- Course Notes:

• Obtained online from the course instructor.
• Lecture room equipped with a data show, white board, and internet connections.

b- Required Books (Textbooks):

1. Modeling the Internet and the Web Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms by Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth, Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-84906-1.

 c- Recommended Books:

1. Mining the Web: Analysis of Hypertext and Semi Structured Data by Soumen Chakrabarti. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; ISBN: 1558607544; 1st edition (August 15, 2002).
2. Pattern Classification (2nd Edition) by Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork. Wiley-Interscience; ISBN: 0471056693; 2nd edition (October 2000).
3. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Springer Series in Statistics) by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman.

 d- Periodicals, Web Sites, ..., etc.