6.871: Knowledge-Based Application Systems
Spring 2006
9:30-11AM Tuesday and Thursday 32-155
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Instructor |
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Prof. Randall Davis |
32-237 |
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Administrative Assistant |
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Nira Manokharan |
32-235 |
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Teaching Assistant |
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Greg Little |
32-G707 |
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Prerequisites: 6.034,
equivalent course, or equivalent experience.
- Readings: There are substantial readings from original literature that go with each lecture. A series of short reading summary assignments will accompany the readings in order to help students focus on the important issues and to give credit for doing the reading.
- Lectures: Students are expected to have done the reading and to participate in class discussion.
- Assignments and Grading: : The main components of the course are the Term Project, Project Reports, Problem Sets, and Reading Summaries. For details, please see the course syllabus. Grades in the course will be determined by the term project (including your paper describing the project and your presentation of it), by your participation in class, and by performance on homework assignments (project reports, problem sets, reading summaries).
New Syllabus Reading Summary Assignments In Here!
Old Syllabus (for reference)
Reading lists:
Assignments:
| Assignment 1 |
Competition Results! John W Pope rules.txt Shuang You rules.txt SmartSweeper Version 1.3 (Final Version, except for bug fixes) Could the rule language be more powerful? Scheme Stuff More Boards (not required!) |
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| Assignment 2 |
Answer Sheet [pdf] [doc] |
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| Project Proposal |
Prior Year's Project List (for ideas) |
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| Assignment 3 |
more files |
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| Progress Report |
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| Next Progress Report |
Overdue! |
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| Final Term Paper/Talk New! |
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Class |
Lecturer* |
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Topic* |
Reading Summary |
Slides |
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intro & background |
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1 |
RD |
Tu Feb 7 |
Course Organization; spirit of the undertaking |
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2 |
RD |
Th Feb 9 |
Tell it what to know; search |
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the spirit and pragmatics of kbs |
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3 |
RD |
Tu Feb 14 |
Origins of KBS: macsyma and dendral Problem Set 1 Out: Minesweeper |
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4 |
RD |
Th Feb 16 |
Application Analysis Case Study: Case Introduction |
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Tu Feb 21 |
No class (virtual Monday) |
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5 |
RD |
Th Feb 23 |
Application Analysis Case
Study: Class Discussion Case study write up due; reading summaries start |
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knowledge representations and reasoning paradigms |
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6 |
RD |
Tu Feb 28 |
Rule-Based Systems |
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7 |
RD |
Th Mar 2 |
Semantic Nets |
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8 |
HES |
Tu Mar 7 |
Logic |
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9 |
RD |
Th Mar 9 |
Frame-Based Systems |
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10 |
RD |
Tu Mar 14 |
Overview of Knowledge
Representation |
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11 |
RD |
Th Mar 16 |
Pragmatic Issues in Knowledge Acquisition
Project Report 1 (Proposal) Due Problem Set 3 Out: Rules based systems in Joshua |
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problem solving paradigms |
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12 |
HES |
Tu Mar 21 |
Uncertain Reasoning, Models of Rationality |
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13 |
KK |
Th Mar 23 |
Blackboards |
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Mar 28, 30 |
Spring Vacation |
Y1 |
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14 |
HES |
Tu Apr 4 |
Problem Solving Paradigms |
No reading! |
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15 |
HES |
Th Apr 6 |
Causal Reasoning |
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16 |
RD |
Tu Apr 11 |
Model-Based Reasoning |
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17 |
RD |
Th Apr 13 |
Case-Based Reasoning |
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Tu Apr 18 |
Patriots' Day Vacation |
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18 |
HES |
Th Apr 20 |
Reasoning with Constraints |
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19 |
HES |
Tu Apr 25 |
Reasoning about Physical
Systems |
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research issues |
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20 |
tbd |
Th Apr 27 |
Guest lecture: Patrick Winston on the Human Intelligence Enterprise. |
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21 |
LPK |
Tu May 2 |
Learning |
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22 |
RD |
Th May 4 |
Ontologies and Data Mining |
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23 |
You |
Tu May 9 |
Project Presentations and Discussion |
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project presentations |
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24 |
You |
Th May 11 |
Project Presentations and Discussion |
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25 |
You |
Tu May 16 |
Project Presentations and Discussion |
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26 |
You |
Th May 18 |
Project Presentations and Discussion Term Project Report Due |
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