(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.