Knowledge Engineering detailed syllabus for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Computer Science & Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CSE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to CSE Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of knowledge engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY 6 Introduction – Abductive reasoning – Probabilistic reasoning: Enumerative Probabilities – Subjective Bayesian view – Belief Functions – Baconian Probability – Fuzzy Probability – Uncertainty methods – Evidence-based reasoning – Intelligent Agent – Mixed-Initiative Reasoning – Knowledge Engineering.
Unit II
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Unit III
ONTOLOGIES – DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 6 Concepts and Instances – Generalization Hierarchies – Object Features – Defining Features -Representation – Transitivity – Inheritance – Concepts as Feature Values – Ontology Matching. Design and Development Methodologies – Steps in Ontology Development – Domain Understanding and Concept Elicitation – Modelling-based Ontology Specification.
Unit IV
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Unit V
LEARNING AND RULE LEARNING 6 Machine Learning – Concepts – Generalization and Specialization Rules – Types – Formal definition of Generalization. Modelling, Learning and Problem Solving – Rule learning and Refinement -Overview – Rule Generation and Analysis – Hypothesis Learning.
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- Understand the basics of Knowledge Engineering.
- Apply methodologies and modelling for Agent Design and Development.
- Design and develop ontologies.
- Apply reasoning with ontologies and rules.
- Understand learning and rule learning.
Text Books:
- Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu, David A. Schum, Knowledge Engineering Building Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-based Reasoning, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2016. (Unit 1 – Chapter 1 / Unit 2 – Chapter 3,4 / Unit 3 – Chapter 5, 6 / Unit 4 – 7 , Unit 5 – Chapter 8, 9 )
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