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Expert Systems Design
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Textbook:

  • "Building Expert Systems”, Elias M. Awad, West PublishingCo

Instructor:

Larry C. Christensen   (Office 1128 TMCB)

  • E-mail LCHRIS@CS.BYU.EDU
  • phone (801) 378-5670

Paul Urie

  • E-mail Paul_Urie@BYU.EDU
  • phone (801) 371-7364

Goals:

  • To provide the computer science student with skills to design and build expert systems tools.

Prerequisites:

  • CS 470, or programming in Lisp, Prolog, or other artificial intelligence languages, with applications to basic artificial intelligence tasks.

Topics:

  • 1.  Human problem solving and learning
  • 2.  Knowledge Representation
  • 3.  Knowledge Documentation
  • 4.  Inference and Control
  • 5.  Languages and Tools for expert systems
  • 6.  Selection of Appropriate Problems
  • 7.  Inexact Knowledge, Fuzzy Logic, Measures of   Belief
  • 8.  Knowledge Bases
  • 9. Knowledge Acquisition
  • 10. Knowledge Programming
  • 11. Evaluation of Expert Systems

Laboratory Projects:

  • 1.  Each student works with a team to create an expert system using a language and tools examined in class.  Evaluation is based on team work, documents explaining
        • a.  project history
        • b.  project selection
        • c.  knowledge engineering methodology
        • d.  user manual
        • e. and the class presentations.
  • 2.  Knowledge base problem using Prolog
  • 3.  Knowledge base problem using EXSYS

Total Credits : 3