COURSE COMPACT

Faculty: Science
Department: Computing Science
Programme: B.Sc. Software Engineering, computer science and cyber security
Course Code:SEN 411
Course Title: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEM
Credit Unit:3 (LH: 45)
Course status: Compulsory
Venue: SC 03
Lecture Period: ( THURSDAY 10:00 AM- 12noon)

Semester/ Session: First Semester 2022/2023.

Course Lecturer:

Dr. Ezekwe Chinwe

Phone: +2348034548445
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Location: (Academic Building 2, Upstairs Office of the coordinator, Software
Engineering)

Course Overview:
This course introduces students to the ever-growing field of Artificial Intelligence and Expert
System. Students will learn the fundamentals of software engineering by discussing and working in a
Class Team through real-life software development project scenarios.
Students will be taught why there has and continues to be a crisis in the Artificial Intelligence and
Expert System development field and the need to apply sound principles to Artificial Intelligence
and Expert System development. Artificial Intelligence and Expert System Software is inherently
complex and the development of industry- strength software which would support critical functions
of a business or organization requires a different approach and different tools. As future Artificial

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Intelligence and Expert System developers and practitioners, students will understand that for such
development projects, the scale of the problem increases drastically and that frequent changes are a
constant.

Course objectives:
▪ The primary goal of the course is to give students the ability to participate in or lead
development teams responsible for real world Artificial Intelligence and Expert System
development projects.

▪ Another important goal is for students to acquire skills which will enable them to effectively
setup Artificial Intelligence and Expert System development teams to build industrial
strength software application systems or to participate in the review, acceptance, and signoffs
of deliverables from Artificial Intelligence and Expert System software development
projects.

▪ The course is intended for students who substantially foresee a career in Software
engineering, cybersecurity, and computer science related domains such as machine learning,
Neural network processes, Machine vision, Speech understanding, Touch ( tactile or haptic)
sensation, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Planning, Expert Systems, Theorem
Proving, Symbolic Mathematics, Game Playing, Cognitive science, Parallel processing,
Logic, Symbolic processing, Knowledge representation, Semantic network and frames

Method of Lecture Delivery:

▪ The course delivery will be a blend of traditional classroom teaching with a mix of online
tutoring and study workshops, using the ADUN SOAP E- Learning portal. Thus, the course
will combine formal, physical lectures with practical project work developing real-world
systems for identified local clients that represent the level of complexity seen by practitioners
in the industry with online tutoring of students. Knowledge and skills acquired from
classroom lectures and interactions will be immediately applied to on-going selected team
projects involving students.
▪ Students will be given assignments and classroom tests continuously.

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Course Outline:

Week 1: INTELLIGENCE

Introduction
Measuring of intelligence
Distribution of IQ Scores
Criticisms of Intelligence Tests
Theories of Intelligence

Week 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS SCIENCE AND

ENGINEERING

Historical Development of Artificial Intelligence

Definitions of Artificial Intelligence
Research Areas of artificial intelligence
Types of artificial intelligence
Areas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence as Science and Engineering
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Computing!
Review Questions

Week 3 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

Introduction
The Biological Model
The Mathematical Model
A framework for distributed representation
Neural Network topologies
Training of artificial neural networks
Modifying patterns of connectivity of Neural Networks
Review Questions

Week 4 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEARCH

Introduction
Why Search is Necessary
How Search Fits Into Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Search Tools
Search Order
Types of Search
Review Questions

Week 5 KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

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Knowledge
Acquiring knowledge
Transmission of knowledge
Knowledge in science and engineering
Forms of knowledge
Knowledge representation (KR)
The roles of knowledge representation
Characteristics of knowledge representation
Notation
Storage and manipulation
knowledge representation system
An example of knowledge representation system
Review Question

Week 6 LOGICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Introduction
Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Logic
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Logic
Various types of Logic
Review Questions

Week 7 COGNITIVE SCIENCE

History of Cognitive Science

Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Science
The Scope of Cognitive Science
Levels of analysis
Cognition as Information Processing
Research methods
Relationship between Artificial intelligence and Cognitive science

Week 8 KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM

Introduction
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Managers

Week 9 UNCERTAINTY THEORY

Introduction
Other taxonomies of uncertainty
Measurements of uncertainty
Applications of Uncertainty

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Week 10 ROBOTICS

Introduction
Robots
Uses of robots
Impact of robots
The future of robot
Seven basic steps in the building of a robot

Week 11 EXPERT SYSTEMS

Introduction
The benefits of Expert Systems to end users
Definitions of Expert Systems
The application areas of expert systems
Expert systems(ES) and Artificial Intelligence(AI)
The Building Blocks of Expert Systems
Architecture of expert systems
Comparism of expert systems to problem-solving systems
Methods of operation of Expert System
Advantages and disadvantages of expert system
Examples of applications of expert system

Week 12 EXPERT SYSTEM TOOLS AND LANGUAGES

Introduction
Expert systems building tools: definitions
ES Building Tools on the Market
Bricks and Mortars ( programming languages) of expert system
Expert systems shell Architecture
Embedded systems and system integration
A sample Expert System tool: ES/KERNEL2

Week 13: Conclusion, Tutorials, Revision

Evaluation/Grading System:
S/N. Activity Weighting (%)

1 Assignments (CA) 20

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2 Test (CA) 20

3 Final Examination 60

TOTAL 100

Ground rules and Regulations: All students must have at least 75% attendance to sit for the exam.
All assignments should be submitted not later than 72 hours from the time of publication.
Assignments would include term paper and short essays.

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