Proceedings of the 26th Academic Council held on 18.5.

2012

CSC521KNOWLEDGEBASEDSYSTEMS

LTP C 3 0 03

VersionNo. Course Prerequisites Objectives 1. Gain a thorough knowledge of the field of Artificial Intelligence 2. Understand the emerging approaches in AI and their implications for information engineering 3. Demonstrate understanding of the applications of AI in business and industry. ExpectedOutcome The students will be able to 1. Discuss the typical approaches used in AI problem solving 2. Compare and contrast various knowledge representation systems 3. Discuss methodological and project management approaches to developing knowledge based systems 4. Explain concepts used in adaptive computing and describe their application to problem solving 5. Describe the major AI application areas and techniques used within them 6. Describe examples of AI use in real situations and particularly on the Internet. Unit1 OVERVIEWOFTHEARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCEFIELD Basic concepts : Definition of AI; Background and past achievements; Aims; Overview of application areas; Problems and problem solving; State space search; Production rules; Logic Heuristic search techniques; Generate and test; Hill climbing; Search reduction strategies Unit2 KNOWLEDGEREPRESENTATION Representation models; Predicate logic; rules; Semantic nets; Frames; Conceptual graphs; Scripts; Fuzziness and uncertainty; Fuzzy logic; Statistical techniques for determining probability; Methodologies for developing knowledge based systems; The KBS Development Life Cycle; Knowledge acquisition/elicitation; Management of KBS projects; Prototyping; Implementation; Development environments Unit3 ADAPTIVEAPPROACHES Neural networks Architectures; Hopfield network; Multi-layer perception Feedforward; Backpropagation; Genetic algorithms; Basic concepts: Population; Chromosomes; Operators; Schemata; Coding Rule induction; Basic concepts: Decision trees/rule sets Unit4 MAJORAPPLICATIONAREAS Expert systems; Natural language processing; Machine vision and robotics; Data mining and intelligent business support Internet based application Unit5 IMPLEMENTATIONTOOLS Prolog, Expert System Shell Expersys, etc. Study of existing expert systems- TIERES, As Mycin & AM. Text/ReferenceBooks 1 Peter Jackson, Introduction to Expert Systems, Addison Wesley; 3rd Edition, 1998 2 Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, AddisonWesley Professional, 1st Edition, 1989 3 Ryszad S. Michalski, Ivan Bratko, Miroslav Kubat, Machine Learning and Data Mining:

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Methods and Applications, Wiley, 1st Edition, 1998 Patterson, Introduction to AI Expert System, PHI, 1993. By assignments, and Continuous Assessment Tests(CAT)

ModeofEvaluation: RecommendedbytheBoardof Studieson DateofApprovalbytheAcademic Council

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