COSC 4P79 Expert Systems

Course information

• Text: (required) Building Expert Systems in Prolog, Dennis Merritt, Springer-Verlag 1989. ISBN 0-387-97016-9.
  • Here is an online version of Building Expert Systems in Prolog (courtesy of Amzi Prolog).
  • PDF version
  • HTML version
  • Original source code (Prolog)
  • Modified source code (Sicstus Prolog)
  • Zipped HTML version

• Also recommended: A good book on Prolog, for example:
  • PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence (3e), Ivan Bratko, Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0201403757.
  • Programming in Prolog (5e), Clocksin and Mellish, Springer-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3540006787.

  • Free Prolog books online...
    • Adventure in Prolog (online), Dennis Merritt.
    • Prolog wikibook (online).
    • Prolog Tutorial (online).
    • Logic, Programming and Prolog by Ulf Nilsson and Jan Maluszynski
    • Adventure in Prolog by Dennis Merrit
    • Learn Prolog Now!
    • Prolog Programming: a first course by Paul Brna
    • Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians by Jocelyn Paine
    • Artificial Intelligence through Prolog by Neil C. Rowe
    • Prolog and Natural Language Analysis by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber
    • More freebies are here.

• Course outline
• Project description
• Assignment 1
  • For hand-in:Please hand in both hardcopies and electronic copies of the source files, data, and example execution scripts. Use "submit4p79" on sandcastle for electronic submission. Please include a printout of the department cover page.
  • Cousins @ wikipedia
• Assignment 2
  • Please see submission guidelines for assignment 1 (above).
• Assignment 3
  • New due date: 12:00 noon, Monday April 2. No lates accepted.

• Here's the COSC assignment cover page.

• Term test: Thursday March 22 (in class). A few old tests are here.

• Seminar schedule

• Project deadline: 12:00 noon, Monday May 7, 2012. No lates!

• Library reserve list.

• Course bibliography

• Lectures (Powerpoint)
  1. Introduction
  2. Prolog
  3. Backward chaining
  4. Explanation
  5. Forward
  6. Uncertainty
  7. Frames
  8. System Design
  9. Knowledge Acquisition
  10. Learning
  11. Neural Networks
  12. Famous expert systems
  13. Ethics and Legal Issues

• Supplementary reading:
  • Fuzzy Systems - A Tutorial (J.F. Brule'). Local copy.
  • Expert system methodologies and applications - a decade review from 1995 to 2004 by Shu-Hsien Liao. Expert Systems with Applications (journal), 28(1), Jan 2005, pp. 93-103.
  • The State of Knowledge-Based Systems by F. Hayes-Roth and N. Jacobstein. CACM, 37(3), March 1994.

Research resources

• Expert Systems (journal)
• Expert Systems with Applications (journal)

Available Prolog systems

• Linux (sandcastle), Windows: Sicstus Prolog 4 (recommended)
  • /usr/local/sicstus/bin/sicstus
  • Online documentation
  • Misc Prolog information (Sicstus)

• Other Prolog systems (look for free editions!)
  • SWI Prolog (free)
  • LPA Prolog
  • Strawberry Prolog for Windows
  • Visual Prolog
  • Amzi Prolog

• Expert Systems page at aaai.org: the best starting place!
• Rue-Based Expert Systems at aaai.org: free book for download
• Expert Systems FAQ (and others)
• Jess: the Java Expert System Shell
• Gideon: medical expert system online
• InferMed : online demo of medical expert system (written in LPA Prolog w/web extension)
• Fuzzy systems tutorial by James F. Brule'
• Expert systems at PC AI Magazine online
• Expert Systems (journal)
• Acquired Intelligence (Victoria, BC)
• List of expert system shells
• Expert system presentation at CodeProject

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