Course Outline

Introduction to Expert Systems

Part I -- Programming in Expert Systems

• CLIPS Overview
• Introduction to CLIPS (PowerPoint)
• Pattern Matching (PowerPoint)
• Advanced Pattern Matching
• Modular Design and Execution Control (PowerPoint)
• Efficiency in Rule-based Languages
• Procedural Programming (PowerPoint)
• COOL Class and Inheritance (PowerPoint)
• COOL Message Handling
• Design Examples (PowerPoint)
  • Clipsjni: Clips Java Native Interface

• JESS : Java Expert System Shell
• JESS Object Support
• JESS Web Interface
• JESS Examples
• Introduction to Fuzzy Jess Toolkit
• JADE : Java Agent Development Framework
• Protege -- A Graphical Ontology Editor

Part II -- Expert Systems Theory

• Knowledge Representation (PowerPoint)
• Knowledge Engineering (local)
• Methods of Inference
(PowerPoint)
• Reasoning Under Uncertainty (PowerPoint)
  Bayesian Reasoning
(local)
• Inexact Reasoning: Certainty Factors
(local) (PowerPoint)
• Fuzzy Sets
• Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning
• Fuzzy Inference Systems