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