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.

Readings:

The adopted textbook for this course is Expert Systems, Principles and Programming, 4th Edition by by Joseph C. Giarratano  and Gary D. Riley
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COURSE OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION
  • Meaning of an expert system
  • understanding the problem domain and knowledge domain
  • advantages of an expert system
  •  stages in ES development 
  • general characteristics of an expert system
  • Examples of earlier expert systems 
  • applications of expert systems in use today
  • structure of a rule-based expert system
  • procedural and nonprocedural paradigms
  • characteristics of artificial neural systems

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THE REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  • introduction to logic
  • formal logic and informal logic
  • knowledge representation
  • Introduction to  semantic nets
  • Introduction to frames 
  • logic and set symbols
  • propositional and first order predicate logic
  • quantifiers

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INFERENCE
  • Definitions of trees, lattices, and graphs
  • state and problem spaces
  •  AND-OR trees and goals
  • methods and rules of inference
  • characteristics of first-order predicate logic and logic systems
  • shallow and causal reasoning
  •  resolution in first-order predicate logic
  •  forward and backward chaining
  • Metaknowledge
  • Markov decision process

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.REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
  • Meaning and theories of uncertainty
  • Errors of uncertainty and induction
  • classical probability, experimental, and subjective probability, and conditional probability
  • hypothetical reasoning and backward induction.
  • temporal reasoning and Markov chains
  • odds of belief, sufficiency, and necessity
  • role of inference nets in expert systems 

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INEXACT REASONING
  • sources of uncertainty in rules
  • methods for dealing with uncertainty
  •  the theory of uncertainty based on fuzzy logic
  • commercial applications of fuzzy logic

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EXPERT SYSTEMS DESIGN
  • ES problem selection
  • Stages in the development of an expert system
  • the role of the knowledge engineer in the building of an expert system
  • expert systems life cycles and models

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INTRODUCTION TO CLIPS
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Homework
1. Go thrrough existing literature concerning any two (2) from each group and discuss their performance, problems, design and implementation issues:
Chemistry ES: MOLGEN, SPEX, SECS
MEDICAL ES: PUFF, ABEL, MYCIN, ONOCIN, GUIDON
Electronic ES: ACE, PALLADIO, SOPHIE
Geology ES: PROSPECTOR, DIPMETER, MUD
Computer ES: BDS, XCON, YES/NO
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PAST QUESTIONS
C/A test 2013/2014 session