7EC6.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & EXPERT SYSTEMS

UNIT 1 : INTRODUCTION TO AI KNOWLEDGE-

Importance of AI, Knowledge Base System Knowledge

organization & manipulation, Conceptual Introduction to LISP and other AI programming Languages.

UNIT 2 :  KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION-

Syntax Semantics, Inference Rules, Non-deductive

Inference methods, and representations using rules, forward chaining and backward chaining. Fuzzy

Logic & Natural languages computations. Probabilistic Reasoning. Object Oriented Representations.

UNIT 3 : KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION & MANIPULATION-

Search & control strategies, matching

techniques, knowledge organization & management, Genetic Algorithms  based search techniques.

UNIT 4 : KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE-

Rule based, non-production,  uncertainty

knowledge system building tools.

UNIT 5 : KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION-

General concepts, learning by induction.