ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES

Course Code: CS701 Course Credits: 3

Course Category: CC Course (U / P / D) D
Course Year (U / P / D): 1D Course Semester (U / P / D): 1D
No. of Lectures 03 Mid Sem. Exam Hours: 1.5
Total No. of Lectures (L): 45 End Sem. Exam Hours: 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1.Provide a strong foundation of fundamental concepts in Artificial Intelligence
2.Enable the student to apply these techniques in applications which involve perception, reasoning and
learning
3.Provide a basic exposition to the goals and methods of Artificial Intelligence
4.Explain the role of agents and how it is related to environment and the way of evaluating it and
how agents can act by establishing goals.
5.Learn the different machine learning techniques to design AI machine and enveloping applications for
real world problems.
COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the students should be able to:

1. Understand the various searching techniques, constraint satisfaction problem and example problems-
game playing techniques.
2. Apply these techniques in applications which involve perception, reasoning and learning
3.Acquire the knowledge of real world Knowledge representation
4.Analyze and design a real world problem for implementation and understand the dynamic behavior
of a system.
5.To enable the student to apply these techniques in applications which involve perception, reasoning
and learning

UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Foundations and History of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Components of AI,Weak and Strong
AI, AI Tests: Chinese Room Test, Turing Test, Body-Mind Problem, Comparison of
Computer and Human Skills, Parallel and Distributed AI, Representation the AI Problem,
Algorithm of Problems Solving, AI Problems: Tic-Tac-Toe, Water-Jug Problem, Tower of
Hanoi Problem, Travelling Salesperson Problem, Nature of AI Problem.
UNIT-II ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES
Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Characteristics and Applications of ANN, Types of ANN,
Activation Function, Perceptron’s, Gradient Descent, Stochastic Gradient Descent, Back-
Propagation, Recurrent Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network. Search Techniques:
Breadth First Search, Depth First Search, Hill Climbing, Best First Search, A*, AO*.
UNIT-III MACHINE LEARNING
Fundamentals of Machine Learning, Data Pre-processing, Supervised Learning: Regression
algorithms, Classification Algorithms (KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, SVM, Naïve
Bayes,), Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Algorithms (K-means, Hierarchical clustering),
Association Rule Learning (Apriori, Eclat Algorithm), Semi-Supervised Learning,
Reinforcement Learning.
UNIT IV ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS
AI in Education, AI in Healthcare, AI in Robotics, AI in IOT, AI in Business and Marketing,
AI in Agriculture, AI in Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Speech Recognition, Computer
Vision, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis.

UNIT V MACHINE LEARNING WITH PYTHON/R

Python: Machine Learning with Python, ML Packages (numpy, matplotlib, sklearn, pandas,
etc.) String and Text, Numbers, Dates, Time, Functions, loops, Classes and Objects, R:
Machine Learning with R, ML Packages, String, Text, Numbers, Dates, Time, Functions,
loops, Classes and Objects.
Reference Books:
1. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python, Andreas C. Muller and Sarah Guido:
O’REILLY, 2016
2. Artificial Intelligence, Ela Kumar: IKI Publishing House, 2008
3. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow, AurélienGéron:
O’REILLY, 2017
4. Natural Language Processing with Python, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward
Loper: O’REILLY, 2009
 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Course Code: RI 760 Course Credits: 4
Course Category :CC CC Course(U/P) U
Course Year(U/P):U 4U Course Semester(U/P): 7U
No. of Lectures+ Tutorials(Hrs/Week): 03+00 Mid Sem Exam Hours: 1
Total No. of Lectures(L+T):30 45+00 End Sem Exam Hours: 3
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. One should ensure there is no space for ambiguity or misinterpretation.
2. Able to fit various growth curves, trend and to measure seasonal indices related to research.
3. Understand forecasting by different methods and to calculate variance of a random component.
4. Present time series in an informative way, both graphically and with summary statistics,
5. It should be attainable within the constraints of the study, including time, resources, and
feasibility.
COURSE OUTCOMES
At the end of the course the students should be able to:
1. To develop and apply knowledge to real time series data and interpret outcomes of analyses.
2. Forecast the trend pattern exhibited by the given data by using various methods.
3. Develop skills in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and presentation.
4. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to choose methods appropriate to research
objectives.
5. This course will help them to select an appropriate research design

Unit-I: Basics of Research

Research: Definition, Objectives, Type and Characteristics, Hypothesis: Meaning and types;
Research methods vs Methodology. Positivism and post-positivistic approaches to research.

Unit-II Research Formulation

Research Formulation – Defining and formulating the research problem; Characteristics of a
good research problem; Selecting the problem; Literature review: Primary and secondary
sources; Research proposal or synopsis Web as a literature source, searching the web;
Organizing the literature and identifying gap areas from literature review

Unit-III Research Design and Methods

Research design: Basic principles, Need of research design, Features of a good research design;
important concepts relating to research design; Observations and facts; Laws and Theories,
Prediction and explanation, Induction, Deduction, Development of Models; Developing a
research plan-Exploration, Description, Diagnosis, Experimentation. Determining experimental
and sample designs.

Unit-IV Data Collection and Analysis

Observations and collection of data; Sample and sampling methods; Data processing and
analysis, Statistical packages of data analysis; Hypothesis testing, Generalization and
interpretation; Role of ICT in research
Unit-V Research Report

Types of report-Technical reports and thesis; Structure and components of a scientific report,
Steps in report preparation: Layout, structure and language of typical reports, illustrations and
tables; Bibliographic entries, referencing and footnotes; Oral presentation: Planning and
practice, use of visible aids, Importance of effective communication

Commercialization of knowledge and technologies and academic ethics; Intellectual property

rights; Plagiarisms paraphrasing and copywriter violation, consequences of plagiarism;
Reproducibility and accountability; Citation counting and impact factor, Scientific citation
index (SCI), Scientific citation index-expanded (SCI-E), H-index.

Reference Books:
1. C. R Kothari (2004): Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Delhi:
New Age International.
2. B.N Ghosh (1984): Scientific Method and Social Research, New Delhi: Sterling.
3. Bridget Somek and Cathy Lewin (2005): Research Methods in the Social Sciences,
New Delhi: Sage.
4. David McNaab (2010): Research Methods for political Science, New York: Routledge
5. Roger Pierce (2008): Research methods In Politics: A Practical Guide, New Delhi:
Sage.
 RESEARCH PUBLICATION AND ETHICS

Course Code: RPE 601 Course Credits:2

Course Category: CC CC Course (U / P)
Course Year (U / P):U U Course Semester (U / P):3U
No. of Lectures + Tutorials Hrs/Week): 3+ 00 Mid Sem. Exam Hours:1.5

Total No. of Lectures (L + T): 45+ 00 End Sem. Exam Hours:3

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce the basics of philosophy of science and ethics.
2. To educate on how to identify research misconduct and predatory publications.
3. To educate on how to identify research misconduct and predatory publications.
4. To discuss Indexing and citation databases
5. To introduce various plagiarism tools.

COURSE OUTCOMES
At the end of the course the students should be able to:
1. Understanding of basics of philosophy of science and ethics.
2. Knowledge of identifying research misconduct and predatory publications.
3. Knowledge of open access publications and research metrics.
4. Knowledge of Indexing and citation databases.
5. Knowledge of research integrity

UNIT 1 : Philosophy and Ethics

Introduction to philosophy: Definition, nature and scope, concept, branches
Ethics: Definition, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgements and reactions Scientific
Misconduct Ethics with respect to science and research, Intellectual honesty and research
integrity, Scientific misconducts: Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism (FFP), Redundant
publications: duplicate and overlapping publications, salami slicing; Selective reporting and
misrepresentation of data

UNIT 2 : Publication Ethics

Publication ethics: Definition, introduction and importance, Best practices/ standards setting
initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc. Conflicts of interest,
Publication misconduct: Definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviour and
vice versa, types, Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributor ship
Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals ,Predatory publishers and
journals

UNIT 3 : Open Access Publishing

Open access publications and initiatives, SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check
publisher copyright & self-archiving policies Software tool to identify predatory publications
 development by SPPU, Journal finder/ journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal
Finder, Springer Journal Suggested, etc.

UNIT 4 :Publication Misconduct A. Groups Discussions

Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship, Conflicts of interest,Complaints and appeals:
examples and fraud from India and abroad Software Tools Use of plagiarism software like
Turnitin, Urkund and other open source.

UNIT 5 :Databases and Research Metrics

Databases Indexing databases Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc. Research
Metrics Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score
Metrics: h-index, g-index, i10 index, all tmetrics.

Reference Books:
1. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python, Andreas C. Muller and Sarah Guido:
O’REILLY, 2016 .
2. Artificial Intelligence, Ela Kumar: IKI Publishing House, 2008
3. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow, AurélienGéron:
O’REILLY, 2017
4. Natural Language Processing with Python, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward
Loper: O’REILLY, 2009
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
Course Code: CS 781 Course Credits: 2
Course Category: CC Course (U / P) U
Course Year (U / P): 1U Course Semester (U / P): 2U
No. of Lectures + Tutorials (Hrs/Week): 02 Mid Sem. Exam Hours:

Total No. of Lectures (L + T): 10 End Sem. Exam Hours:

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1.Master the fundamentals of writing Python scripts.
2.Learn core Python scripting elements such as variables and flow control structures.
3.Discover how to work with lists and sequence data.
4.Write Python functions to facilitate code reuse.
5.Use Python to read and write files.
COURSE OUTCOMES
At the end of the course the students should be able to:
1. Problem solving and programming capability.
2.Explain basic principles of Python programming language
3.Implement database and GUI applications.
4.Implement object oriented concepts
5.Define and demonstrate the use of built-in data structures “lists” and “dictionary”

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
1. Data pre-processing in Python.
2. Simple linear regression in Python.
3. Multiple Linear Regressions in Python.
4. Polynomial Regression in Python.
5. Logistic Regression in Python.
6. Support Vector Machine in Python.
7. Naive Bayes in Python.
8. Decision Tree in Python.
9. Random Forest in Python.
10. KNN in Python.