Expert System
This course introduces the student to the general overview of expert systems, and how to build an expert system in a variety of application areas.
COURSE OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION TO EXPERT SYSTEM
KNOWLEDGE ACQUSITION
THE REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE
INFERENCING STRATEGIES
REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
- Introduction
- Data, Information and knowledge
- Engineering, software engineering & knowledge engineering
- The role of knowledge engineer
- Categories of KBS
INTRODUCTION TO EXPERT SYSTEM
- What is an ES?
- Conventional and ES
- The Characteristic of ES
- The Structure of ES
- The Characteristic of ES
- ES Development Life Cycles
- Participants in ES Development
- Selected Business Expert Systems and Functions
- Advantages of ES
- Limitations of ES
- When to Use Expert Systems
- Justifying the Problem Domain
- MYCIN: A medical expert system
- WEBCANDI: A Web based Expert System for Cancer Diagnosis
- Building Tools
KNOWLEDGE ACQUSITION
- Introduction
- Scopes of knowledge
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Problems in Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Acquisition Techniques
- Structuring Knowledge Graphically
THE REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- Introduction
- Semantic Networks
- Decision Tables
- Decision Trees
- Frames
- Production Rules
- Logic
- Propositional Logic
- Predicate Calculus
INFERENCING STRATEGIES
- Introduction
- Categories of Reasoning
- Inference Techniques
- Control Strategies
- Comparative Summary of Backward and Forward Chaining
- Conflict Resolution
- Goal Agenda
REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
- Certainty Theory
- Fuzzy approach
- Bayesian approach
Lecture Slides
| 1-expertsyoverview.pdf |
| Module 2-knowledge engineering |
| Module 3-introduction to ES |
| 4-knowledgeacquisition.pdf |
| Module 5: Representation of Konwoledge |
| Module 6- inferencing |
| Module 7: Reasoning Under uncertainty: Certainty approach |
| Module 8: Reasoning under uncertainty: Fuzzy approach |
| Module 9: Reasoning under uncertainty: Bayesian approach |