(a) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEM FIRST TERM: 1. INTRODUCTION TO A. I. :Overview, Concept of knowledge, A.I. Programming and languages (LISP and Prolog). 2. KNOWLEDE REPRESENTATION: Symbolic logic, dealing with in-consistancies and uncertainties, structured knowledge, object oriented reperesentation. SECOND TERM: 3. KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION AND MANIPULATION: Searching and Matching Techniques, Knowledge organization and management. 4. Perception, Communication and expert system: (Very basic) Natural languages processing, pattern recognition, visual image understanding, Expert system architecture. 5. KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION (only basic): General concept in knowledge acquisition, Learning by induction, Examples of inductive learners, Analogical and explanation basic learning. Text Books: 1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert System By D. W. Patterson, University of Texas, E1 Paso Published by Prentice Hall India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi-1992 2. Artificial Intelligence By Elaine Rich & KalvinKnight (2nd Edition) Published by Tata McGraw Hill Reference Book: Artificial Intelligence By E.Charwak & D.Mc Dormill Addison-Wesley publishing company.