CS  562    FALL 2009  



   Instructor: Dr. Chris Nikolopoulos

   Office: BR 197

   Tel.: 677-2456

   Office hours: W 3:30-4:30, T-Th. 11:45-12:30  and by appointment.

   E-mail: chris@bradley.edu

		
   Texts:
     1.   
Chris Nikolopoulos, Expert Systems: An Introduction
to First, Second Generation and Hybrid Knowledge based Systems,
Marcel Dekker, 1997.        
           (required)  

     2.   Alaq, Collective Intelligence In Action, Manning Press, 2009 
  

   Grading: 90 - 100   A

            80 - 90    B

		e.t.c. 

   Based on: Test 1    100 points  On:Thursday, October 15    
  

            Final      100 points   On: December 10, 2:30-4:30


             Project    50 points  DUE on day of final exam

             Homework   50 points 




We will cover logic Programming and give an overview of Expert Systems and related 
technology. We will cover the areas of neural networks and Hybrid Expert 
Systems (a combination of neural nets or other paradigms and expert systems). 
Other Machine Learning techniques will also be covered. Fuzzy
logic and fuzzy systems will also be covered. Off the self software 
packages will be used for implementations of these techniques. 
Applications to Intelligent web searching will also be discussed.
 

By the fifth or sixth week of the term you should decide on a project
topic. Options for project topics will be given in class.  
Oral presentations on the projects are to be delivered on the last day of 
class.