Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Course Code: 4350705

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (GTU)

Competency-focused Outcome-based Green Curriculum-2021 (COGC-2021)

Semester -V

Course Title: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

(Course Code: 4350705)

Diploma programme in which this course is offered Semester in which offered

Computer Engineering 5th semester

1. RATIONALE

Artificial intelligence is an expansive branch of computer science that focuses on building smart
machines. Thanks to AI, these machines can learn from experience, adjust to new inputs, and perform
human-like tasks. AI is more popular than ever today due to increased data volumes, advancements in
computing and storage and advanced algorithms. We encounter several examples of artificial
intelligence in our daily lives. From Netflix’s movie recommendation to Amazon’s Alexa, we now rely
on various AI models without knowing it. Hence, every student of Computer Engineering must therefore
understand the blue prints of artificial intelligence and must be able to apply AI on available data. This
course will help students to build up core competencies in understanding different concepts of AI.

2. COMPETENCY

The purpose of this course is to help the student to attain the following industry identified competency
through various teaching-learning experiences:

● Conceptualize the basic ideas and techniques underlying the design of AI systems.

3. COURSE OUTCOMES (COs)

The practical exercises, the underpinning knowledge, and the relevant soft skills associated with this
competency are to be developed in the student to display the following COs:

a) Identify different AI techniques and its applicable areas.

b) Classify different problem characteristics and algorithms for AI
c) Illustrate the issues in knowledge representation and the use of resolution procedures for solving
AI problems
d) Illustrate the components, development phases and applications of Expert Systems
e) Perform case studies on different available AI systems

4. TEACHING AND EXAMINATION SCHEME

Teaching Scheme Total Credits Examination Scheme

(In Hours) (L+T/2+P/2) Theory Marks Practical Marks Total
L T P C CA ESE CA ESE Marks

3 - 2 4 30 70 25 25 150

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(*): Out of 30 marks under the theory CA, 10 marks are for assessment of the micro-project to facilitate
integration of COs and the remaining 20 marks is the average of 2 tests to be taken during the semester
for the assessing the attainment of the cognitive domain UOs required for
the attainment of the COs.

Legends: L-Lecture; T – Tutorial/Teacher Guided Theory Practice; P -Practical; C – Credit, CA -

Continuous Assessment; ESE -End Semester Examination.

5. SUGGESTED PRACTICAL EXERCISES

The following practical outcomes (PrOs) are the subcomponents of the COs. . . . These PrOs need to be
attained to achieve the COs.

Sr. Approx.
Practical Outcomes (PrOs) Unit
No. Hrs.
1 Study about NumPy library of Python. 1 1
2 Study about Scikit library of Python. 1 1
3 Study about Panda library of Python. 1 1
Develop a program that read rules from the rules file and acts
accordingly for given user input. For this, create a text file of five
4 2 2
rules of any situation and ask the user to give input and according
to the rules give the response.
5 Read data from a CSV file using panda library. 2 1
Write a python program to generate Calendar for the given month
6 2 1
and year?
Write a python program to implement Breadth First Search
7 2 2
Traversal?
8 Write a program to implement Tic-Tac-Toe game using python. 2 2
9 Perform math functions using NumPy library. 3 2
10 Identify the missing values from given CSV file. 3 2
11 Write a program to identify the noisy value of the age data set. 3 2
12 Write a python program to implement simple Chatbot 3 2
Write a python program to remove stop words for a given
13 4 2
passage from a text file using NLTK?
Write a python program to for Text Classification for the give
14 4 2
sentence using NLTK?
Study about how to asking ChatGPT to Write Complex
15 5 2
Algorithms
16 Study about Movie recommendation based on emotion in Python 5 2
Total 28

Note

i. More Practical Exercises can be designed and offered by the respective course teacher to develop
the industry relevant skills/outcomes to match the COs. The above table is only a suggestive list.
ii. The following are some sample ‘Process’ and ‘Product’ related skills (more may be added/deleted
depending on the course) that occur in the above listed Practical Exercises of this course required
which are embedded in the COs and ultimately the competency..

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Sr. Sample Performance Indicators for the PrOs Weightage in %

No.

1 Analyze given problem and find possible solution methods 25

2 Select appropriate algorithm/method to solve the problem 10

3 Use python libraries to implement solution 25

4 Test the model solution by different data sets 20

5 Making predictions and improve learning parameters as well as 20

improve accuracy.

Total 100

6. MAJOR EQUIPMENT/ INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED

This major equipment with broad specifications for the PrOs is a guide to procure them by the
administrators to usher in uniformity of practical in all institutions across the state.

Sr. PrO. No.

Equipment Name with Broad Specifications
No.

1 Computer system with operating system: Windows 7 or higher Ver.,

macOS, and Linux, with 4GB or higher RAM, Python versions: 2.7.X,
3.6.X All

2 Python IDEs and Code Editors

Open Source: Anaconda Navigator

7. AFFECTIVE DOMAIN OUTCOMES

The following sample Affective Domain Outcomes (ADOs) are embedded in many of the above-
mentioned COs and PrOs. More could be added to fulfill the development of this competency.
a) Work as a Data scientist.
b) Follow ethical practices.

The ADOs are best developed through the laboratory/field-based exercises. Moreover, the level of
achievement of the ADOs according to Krathwohl’s ‘Affective Domain Taxonomy’ should gradually
increase as planned below:
i. ‘Valuing Level’ in 1st year
ii. ‘Organization Level’ in 2nd year.
iii. ‘Characterization Level’ in 3rd year.

8. UNDERPINNING THEORY

Only the major Underpinning Theory is formulated as higher-level UOs of Revised Bloom’s taxonomy
in order development of the COs and competency is not missed out by the students and teachers. If
required, more such higher-level UOs could be included by the course teacher to focus on the attainment
of COs and competency.

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Unit Unit Outcomes (UOs) Topics and Sub-topics

(4 to 6 UOs at Application and above
level)

Unit – I 1a. Describe different AI techniques 1.1 The AI Problem

Introduction 1b. Summarize applications of AI 1.2 The Underlying Assumption
to artificial 1.3 AI Techniques
intelligence 1.4 The level of model
1.5 Criteria for success
1.6 Application of AI

Unit – II 2a. Discuss different problem 2.1 Solving problems as state space
State Space characteristics for solving AI search
Search and problems 2.2 Production system
Heuristic 2b. Illustrate algorithms to solve AI 2.3 Problem characteristics
Technique problems 2.4 Depth First Search
2.5 Breadth-First Search
2.6 Heuristic function
2.7 Hill climbing
2.8 Best First Search

Unit– III 3a. Explain different issues in 3.1 Knowledge Representation

Knowledge Knowledge Representation 3.2 Issues in Knowledge Representation
Representatio 3b. Compare Forward and Backward 3.3 FIRST ORDER LOGIC
n Reasoning 3.4 Computable function and predicates
3c. Use resolution procedures to 3.5 Forward/Backward reasoning
solve AI problems 3.6 Unification and Lifting
3.7 Resolution procedure
3.8 Logic programming

Unit– IV 4a. Describe the basic building blocks 4.1 Expert System
Expert System and development phases of the 4.2 Building Blocks of Expert System
Expert System 4.3 Development phases of Expert
4b. Discuss the importance of System
knowledge acquisition for Expert 4.4 Expert System-shell
System 4.5 Explanations
4.6 Knowledge Acquisition
4.7 Application of the expert system

Unit– V 5a. Perform case studies on different 5.1 Chatbots

AI Case available AI systems 5.2 ChatGPT
Studies 5.3 Recommendation Algorithm
5.4 Digital (Voice) Assistant
5.5 Virtual Face Filters

Note: The UOs need to be formulated at the ‘Application Level’ and above of Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy’ to accelerate the attainment of the COs and the competency.

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9. SUGGESTED SPECIFICATION TABLE FOR QUESTION PAPER DESIGN

Unit Unit Title Teaching Distribution of Theory Marks

No. Hours
R U A Total
Level Level Level Marks

I Introduction to artificial intelligence 08 04 06 04 14

II State Space Search and Heuristic

12 06 08 04 18
Technique

III Knowledge Representation 08 04 06 04 14

IV Expert System 08 04 06 04 14

V AI Case Studies 06 02 06 02 10

Total 42 20 32 18 70

Legends: R=Remember, U=Understand, A=Apply and above (Revised Bloom’s taxonomy)

Note: This specification table provides general guidelines to assist students for their learning and to
teachers to teach and question paper designers/setters to formulate test items/questions assess the
attainment of the UOs. The actual distribution of marks at different taxonomy levels (of R, U and A) in
the question paper may vary slightly from the above table.

10. SUGGESTED STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Other than the classroom and laboratory learning, following are the suggested student-related co-
curricular activities which can be undertaken to accelerate the attainment of the various outcomes in
this course: Students should conduct following activities in group and prepare reports of about 5 pages
for each activity, also collect/record physical evidences for their (student’s) portfolio which will be
useful for their placement interviews:
a) Explore different algorithms and methods to solve AI problems.
b) Undertake micro-projects in teams
c) Give a seminar on any relevant topics.

11. SUGGESTED SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (if any)

These are sample strategies, which the teacher can use to accelerate the attainment of the various
outcomes in this course:
a) Massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be used to teach various topics/subtopics.
b) Guide student(s) in undertaking micro-projects.
c) ‘L’ in section No. 4 means different types of teaching methods that are to be employed by
teachers to develop the outcomes.
d) About 20% of the topics/sub-topics which are relatively simpler or descriptive in nature is to be
given to the students for self-learning, but to be assessed using different assessment methods.
e) With respect to section No.10, teachers need to ensure to create opportunities and provisions
for co-curricular activities.
f) Guide students for open-source python editors.

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12. SUGGESTED MICRO-PROJECTS

Only one micro-project is planned to be undertaken by a student that needs to be assigned to

him/her in the beginning of the semester. In the first four semesters, the micro-project are
group-based. However, in the fifth and sixth semesters, it should be preferably be individually
undertaken to build up the skill and confidence in every student to become problem solver so
that s/he contributes to the projects of the industry. In special situations where groups have
to be formed for micro-projects, the number of students in the group should not exceed three.
The micro-project could be industry application based, internet-based, workshop-
based, laboratory-based or field-based. Each micro-project should encompass two or more
COs which are in fact, an integration of PrOs, UOs and ADOs. Each student will have to
maintain a dated work diary consisting of individual contributions in the project work and give
a seminar presentation of it before submission. The total duration of the micro-project should
not be less than 16 (sixteen) student engagement hours during the course. The student ought
to submit a micro-project by the end of the semester to develop the industry oriented COs.
A suggestive list of micro-projects is given here. This has to match the competency and
the COs. Similar micro-projects could be added by the concerned course teacher:

● Resume Parser
● Chatbots
● Animal Species Prediction System
● Object Detection System
● Facial Emotions Recognition System
● Autocorrect Tool

13. SUGGESTED LEARNING RESOURCES

Author Publication with

S.
Title of Book place, year and
No.
ISBN

1 Artificial Intelligence, 3rd ed Elaine Rich, Kevin TMH (Tata

Knight, Shiv Shankar B McGraw Hill)
Nair

2 A First Course in Artificial Intelligence Deepak Khemani TMH (Tata

McGraw Hill)

3 Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Stuart Russell and Peter Pearson

2nd ed Norvig

4 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Dan W. Patterson PHI (Prentice

Expert Systems Hall of India)

14. SOFTWARE/LEARNING WEBSITES

a. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence-an-introduction/
b. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/artificial_intelligence/index.htm
c. https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence
d. https://nptel.ac.in/
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e. https://www.coursera.org/
f. https://scikit-learn.org/

15. PO-COMPETENCY-CO MAPPING

Semester V Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (Course Code: 4350705)

POs and PSOs

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Competency
Conceptualize the basic ideas and techniques underlying the design of AI systems.

Course Outcomes
CO a) Identify different AI
2 - - - - - 3
techniques and its
applicable areas.

CO b) Classify different
problem characteristics and 2 2 3 3 - 2 3
algorithms for AI

CO c) Illustrate the issues in

knowledge representation
and the use of resolution 2 3 3 3 - 2 3
procedures for solving AI
problems

CO d) Illustrate the components,

development phases and
2 2 2 2 - 2 3
applications of Expert
Systems

CO e) Perform case studies on

different available AI 2 3 3 3 - 3 3
systems

Legend: ‘3’ for high, ‘2’ for medium, ‘1’ for low or ‘-’ for the relevant correlation of each
competency, CO, with PO/ PSO

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16. COURSE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

GTU Resource Persons

Sr.
Name and Designation Institute Email
No.

Mrs. Manisha P. Mehta – Head Government Polytechnic [email protected]

1
(Comp) Himmatnagar m

Mr. Sanjay A. Valaki – Lect. Government Polytechnic

2 [email protected]
(Comp) Himmatnagar

Mr. Hardik N. Talsania - Lect. R. C. Technical Institute [email protected]

3
(Comp) Ahmedabad m

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