714-0995 – Expert Systems in GIS (ESd)

The first part of this course is dedicated to solving expert problems. These problems can arise from other courses as well as from practice. The main emphasis lays in explanation of fundamental principles of problem solving strategies and of their general properties. The students learn how to decide which procedure is a suitable tool for solving a specific problem. An important ingredient of the course is algorithmic implementation in PROLOG language. The students learn how to use existing Expert Systems, too. The second part of the course deals with basic types of Artificial Neural Networks and with the way in which to understand these networks from both theoretical and practical points of view. The students are taught how to use these general methods to solve the problems arising from other courses of their study and from practice.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Languages of AI. Introduction to PROLOG. Problem solving strategies. Expert System (ES). Describe the characteristics, features, structures, limitations, and benefits of ES. Describe the various methods of knowledge representation and build simple rule-based knowledge bases. Describe the various methods of inference. Conduct manual backward and forward chaining inferences. Artificial Neural Networks. The most common models like Backpropagation multilayered, Recurrent multilayered, Kohonen, Counterpropagation, Hopfield, BAM and ART nets are introduced. Object-oriented model of all mentioned types of neural networks. Expert System and Neural Network. Applications of Neural Network in Imaging Processing.

Giarratano, J., Riley, G.: Expert Systems: Principles and Programming. 4th ed. Boston: Thomson Course Technology, 2005, 842 s.

Nilsson, N., J.: Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis. Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.