CIS-672 -- Expert System Methods and Design

Professor: Franz J. Kurfess

Home page:http://www.cis.njit.edu/franz   E-mail:franz@cis.njit.edu

Textbook:

	Required: A. Gonzalez and D. Dankel: 
		  ``The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems'' 
		  Prentice Hall, 1994.
	Additionally recommended: J. Giarratano and G. Riley
		  ``Expert Systems -- Principles and Programming'', 
		  2nd Edition, PWS Publishing Company, 1994.
Both books contain a version of the CLIPS expert system shell for PCs; versions are also available for UNIX and Macintosh systems.

Tentative Grading Scheme:

Midterm 1 30%
Midterm 2 30%
Homework and Project 40%

Important Topics and Concepts

Tentative Schedule:

Week Topic Book Homework Deadline
Title Page, Overview
1 Introduction to Expert Systems 1
2 An Overview of CLIPS App. A Family Relationships Sep. 30
3 Expert System Development 10,11 Term Project Nov. 25
4 Knowledge Representation 1,2
5 Logic and Reasoning 3
6 Midterm Exam 1-3, 10, 11, App.A
7 Rule-Based Reasoning 4
8 Rule-Based Reasoning with CLIPS 5, App. A Baseball Relationships Nov. 18
9 Inexact Reasoning 8
10 Alternatives to Rule-Based Reasoning 6,7
11 System Design Issues 12, 13, 14
12 Case Studies 19, 20

Course Material

I will try to make copies of the transparencies available as PostScript files (4 transparencies per page); follow the above link to the chapter.

Additional Material

Here you find pointers to potentially useful or interesting additional material.

CIS 332 Expert Systems Fall 1996 Franz Kurfess.