CSS 482 Updated Schedule





Date

Topics

Reading

Assignment





9/29

Welcome; The what and why of expert systems

Chapters 1–4

homework 1 assigned





10/4

Facts and rules; The anatomy of an expert system

Chapters 6, 7

homework 1 due; homework 2 assigned

10/6

Facts and rules, cont’d





10/11

A case study; rules

Chapter 5

10/13

JESS and Java

sign up for project conferences; homework 2 due; homework 3 assigned





10/18

Knowledge engineering; the expert system development process

Chapters 9–11

project conferences this week

10/20

Design pattern: diagnosis and backward chaining

Chapters 12, 13

homework 3 due; homework 4 assigned





10/25

Diagnosis workshop

10/27

Java inside JESS: facts connected to the real world

Chapters 14–16

homework 4 due; project proposals due





11/1

JESS inside Java

Chapters 17–19

11/3

Midterm





11/8

Web application architecture

homework 5 assigned

11/10

Intelligent agents: the Wumpus World





11/15

Agent workshop

11/17

Computational complexity of expert systems

Chapter 8

homework 5 due; homeworks 6a & 6b assigned





11/22

Expert systems in context: an overview of AI

11/24

Snow Day!





11/29

AI, cont’d

homework 6a due Sunday

12/1

Wumpus World competition 1; Expert systems in context: knowledge representation, logic, and reasoning beyond logic

homework 6b due Friday





12/6

World competition 2; logic & KR, cont’d

12/8

No class; work on those projects!





12/13

Project presentations

12/15

Project reports due





Last modified: December 7, 2010