Lectures : 3 hrs/week Mid-Sem 40, Term Paper -10 End-Sem Exam- 50
Syllabus Contents: Unit 1: Knowledge Representation: Prepositional Logic, Inference Rules in Prepositional Logic, Knowledge representation using Predicate logic, Predicate Calculus, Semantic net, Frames
Unit 2: Inconsistent Information Systems: Basic Concepts of Rough Sets, Equivalence Class and Discernibility Relations, Lower and Upper approximations, Information Systems Framework using Rough Sets, Reducts and Core, Introduction to Rough Set Software ROSE, Rules extractions, Outsourcing Resource Selection using Rough set, Information Gain and applications
Unit 3: Genetic algorithms for Evolutionary Computing, Introduction to Genetic Programming
Unit 4: Dynamical Systems and Chaos:1-D and 2-D Maps, Chaotic orbits, Chaotic attractors, Bifurcations
Unit 5: Representation and Manipulation of Imprecision and uncertainty : Fuzzy Sets, Type-I Membership Functions Triangular, Trapezoidal, PI, T-Norm, S-Norm Fuzzy Operations, Fuzzy Hedges, Convex combination of fuzzy sets, Fuzzy Relations & composition
Unit 6: Engineering Adaptations of Fuzzy Systems: Fuzzy Data types, Fuzzy Object Class, Fuzzy Logic IC chips, Fuzzy Inference Engine and rule based systems, Fuzzy Controllers, Embedded Fuzzy Controllers on DSP Chips, FUZOS- Fuzzy Logic Support in DoS commands, Decision Making with Fuzzy information, Machine Intelligence Quotient
Unit 7: Neural Networks: Introduction to neural networks and perception, Neural net Architecture and applications
Term Paper: Students will identify, submit and present a Term Paper on a current topic.
References: [1] Fundamentals of the New Artificial Intelligence- Toshinori Munakata, Springer [2] Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart Russell & Peter Nerving, Prentice Hall [3] Artificial Intelligence Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight, B. Nair, Tata Mc Graw-Hill [4] Chaos-An introduction to Dynamical Systems-K.T. Alligood, T.D. Sauer, J.A. Yorke, Springer [5] Fuzzy Logic with engineering Applications- T.J. Ross, Wiley Chapter 10 [6] Fuzzy Logic for Embedded Systems Applications- Ahmed M Ibrahim, Elsevier Publ. 2004 [7] Soft Computing- Techniques and its Applications in electrical Engg.- D. K. Chaturvedi, Springer [8] An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)-Melanai Mitchell [9] A field Guide to Genetic Programming-R. Poli, W. Langdon, N. McPhee