SRM UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
COURSE PLAN

Course Code

: MCO653

Course Title

: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Semester

: III

Course Time

: July November 2011

Day

Hour

Timing

Day 1

9.35A.M 10.25A.M

Day 3

III

10.35A.M 11.25A.M

Day 4

III

10.35A.M 11.25A.M

Day 5

IV

11.25A.M 12.15P.M

Location

: S.R.M.University Tech Park

Faculty Details
Sec.

Name

Office

Office hour

Mail id

2nd
year
A / B / A. VIJAY BHARATH
C/D

IT

8.45 A.M. 4.00

PARK

P.M.

vijaybharatha@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

Required Text Books: 1. Rich Knight Kevin Artificial Intelligence Tata McGraw Hill - 1993
2. Patterson W Dan Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert system Prentice Hall of india - 1990

Web resources : www.wikipedia.org

Prerequisite :
Objectives :

Searching techniques
To provide knowledge on AI concepts and knowledge engineering with expert system
design.

Assessment Details

Cycle test

: 20

Announced

: 10

Unannounced

: 10

Assignment

: 10

Model

: 20

Total

: 70 marks

Test Schedule
S.No.

DATES(Tentative)

TEST

TOPICS

DURATION

03.08.2011

Cycle test

Unit I & II

2 periods

24/08/2011

Announced Quiz

Unit-III

1 period

Unit - IV

1 period

All 5 units

3 Hrs

26/9/2011

31.10.2011

Unannounced
Quiz
Model exam

Outcomes
Students who have successfully completed this course will have full understanding of the
following concepts

Course outcome

Program outcome

To understand Task domains of AI

To produce production systems rules.

To understand AI Problems & Techniques

To learn more about heuristic search

To understand weak and strong slot filler structures

techniques

To understand knowledge representation

To represent knowledge using rules.

To learn game playing techniques.
To learn more about expert systems

Detailed Session Plan

AI PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES-PRODUCTION SYSTEMS-CHARACTERISTICSPRODUCTION SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS-HEURISTIC SEARCH

Sessi
on

Topics to be covered

No.
1
2
3

AI PROBLEMS & TASK DOMAIN OF

AI
AI TECHNIQUES-PROPERTIES
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Time
(min)

Ref

Teaching
Method

50

BB

50

BB

50

BB

Testing Method

Discussion, quiz

Discussion
Discussion

Discussion
4

PRODUCTION SYSTEM

50

BB

CHARACTERISTICS
5

CONTROL STATEGY

50

BB

Discussion

BREADTH FIRST, ADVT. & DISADV

50

BB

Group Discussion

50

BB

DEPTH FIRST SEARCH, ADVT. &

DISADV.
PROBLEM AND PRODUCTION

CHARACTERISTICS, HEURISTIC

Group Discussion

Discussion
50

BB

50

BB

SEARCH
9

PLA-AND-GENERATE,HILL
CLIMBING, BEST-FIRST SEARCH

Discussion

K-R ISSUES-USING PREDICATE LOGIC-REPRESENTINGKNOWLEDGE USIGN RULESSYMBOLIC REASONING-STATISTICAL REASONING

10
11
12,1

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
MAPPING BETWEEN FACTS AND
REPRESENTATION
APPROACHES TO KNOWLEDGE

50

BB

50

BB

50

BB

Discussion
Assignment

Discussion

REPRESENTATIONS

14

PREDICATE LOGIC

50

BB

Exercises

15

SYMBOLS AND SYNTAX

50

BB

Discussion

50

BB

50

BB

50

BB

16

17

18

REPRESENTATING KNOWLEDGE
USING RULES
SYMBOLIC REASONING UNDER
UNCERTAINITY
STATISTICAL REASONING

Discussion

Discussion
Discussion /
Descriptive

WEAK SLOT-AND-FILLER STRUCTURES-STRONG-SLOT-AND-FILLER STRUCTURE

19,2

Semantic Nets

0
21
22
23

Intersection Search, Partitioned semantic

Nets
Frames
Conceptual Dependency

50

BB

Recap/Discussion

50

BB

Discussion

50

BB

Brain Storming

50

BB

Group Discussion &

comparative study

24

scripts

50

BB

Exercises

25

CYC, motivations

50

BB

Discussion

26

CYCL

50

BB

Discussion

50

BB

Discussion

BB

Assignment

27,2

Global Ontology

GAME PLAYING PLANNING UNDERSTANDING

29

Min Max Search Procedure

50

30
31,3

Iterative Deepening
Planning

2,33
34,3

Understanding

5,36

50

BB

50

BB

50

BB

Discussion
Group Discussion &
comparative study
Discussion

LEARNING-EXPERT SYSTEMS-EXPERT SYSTEMS SHELLS-EXPLANATIONSKNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

37

Rote learning

50

BB

Discussion

38

Induction Learning

50

BB

Discussion

39

Explanation Based Learning

50

BB

Discussion

40

Analogy

50

BB

Exercises

41

Formal Learning Thoery

50

BB

Discussion

42

Expert system shells

50

BB

Discussion

43

Explanations

50

BB

Discussion

44

Knowledge Acquisition

50

BB

Discussion

45

Summary & Exercise

50

BB

Discussion

Staff-in-charge
(A.Vijay Bharath)

HOD/MCA