Concept of intelligence, Artificial intelligence, definition turning test, areas of application.
Search techniques, state space, Production rules, problem characteristics, production system
characteristic, depth first, breadth first search methods and their analysis, Heuristic search
method, generate and test, hill climbing, best first method, graph search, AND OR search
methods, constraint satisfaction, backtracking.
Introduction to list and string processing and dynamic databases concept of knowledge,
characteristics and representation schemes, Logic, prepositional and predicate calculus,
resolution, semiatics nets, frames, conceptual dependency, scripts Monotonic reasoning, logical
reasoning induction, natural deduction.
Nonmonotonic reasoning – default reasoning minimalist reasoning, statistical reasoning –
Baye’s theorem, certainty factors, dempster shafer theory, Fuzzy logic.
Concept of learning, inductive and deductive. Knowledge acquisition, rote learning, discovery
analogy.
Concept of expert system, need for an expert system, Component and categories of an expert
system, need for an expert system, Stages in the development of an expert system.