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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Expert Systems in GIS

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 541-0888/03
Abbreviation ES_GIS_D
Course title Expert Systems in GIS
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. František Staněk, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Languages of AI. Introduction to PROLOG.
2. Problem solving strategies. Expert System (ES). Describe the characteristics, features, structures, limitations, and benefits of ES.
3. 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.
4. Artificial Neural Networks.
5. The most common models like Backpropagation multilayered.
6. Recurrent multilayered nets.
7. Kohonen, Counterpropagation nets are introduced.
8. Hopfield, BAM and ART nets are introduced.
9. Object-oriented model of all mentioned types of neural networks.
10. Expert System and Neural Network. Applications of Neural Network in Imaging Processing.

Literature

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

Advised literature

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