Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Knowledge Engineering (19.E2S41)

Native organizations units: No data

Type of studies	Title

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	5

Educational goal:

Gaining the knowledge necessary for (1) symbolic knowledge representation and symbolic reasoning and (2) development of expert systems.

Educational outcome:

After successfully completing the course a student (1) can understand basic knowledge engineering concepts and (2) is capable to design and develop expert systems.

Course content:

(1) introduction to knowledge engineering, (2) knowledge representation methods (propositional logic, predicate logic, description logic & ontologies, rules, arguments, cases and fuzziness), (3) reasoning methods (case-based reasoning, case-bsed reasoning, fuzzy reasoning), (4) knowledge engineering standards (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, & RuleML) & (5) expert systems and decision-support systems (design & implementation).

Teaching methods:

Teaching methods include: lectures, computer practice classes and consultations. During the lectures the content of the course is presented using the necessary didactic tools while active participation of students is encouraged. The practical aspect of the course is covered at computer practice classes through assignments which students do independently or with the help of teaching assistants. The course lecturer and teaching assistants have consultations with the students. During the consultations the students are given additional explanations of the material covered at the lecture and practice classes.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Brachman, R. J. and Levesque H. J.	Knowledge Representation and Reasoning	2004	Amsterdam: Elsevier	Serbian language
Antoniou, G. and van Harmelen, F.	A Semantic Web Primer	2004	Cambridge: MIT Press	Serbian language
Russell, S. and Norvig, P.	Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, Third edition	2010	London: Pearson Education	Serbian language