CSE 335/435 - Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Fall 2012
Announcements
** All announcements will be made here
Book
Experience
Management: Foundations, Development Methodology, and Internet-Based
Applications, Ralph Bergmann
Note:Available online for Lehigh's students through Lehigh's library.
Go to http://springerlink.metapress.com/ (from a computer at Lehigh).
Additional source: Case-Based
Reasoning Technology: From Foundations to Applications, Mario Lenz,
Brigitte Bartsch-Spörl, Hans-Dieter Burkhard,
Stefan Wess (Eds.)
Description
In this course we will study advanced techniques and
applications for intelligent decision support systems (IDSSs). Decision support systems
are software systems that help individuals and organizations make informed choices.
Intelligent decision support systems aim at building such software systems using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques.
The course
will be self-contained and as part of it we'll study some of the AI techniques
that are used to build IDSSs. The course consist of two parts.
In the first part (the first half of the semester) we cover general IDSS techniques including:
In the second half of the semester we will focus on applications of these techniques including:
The course has been taught five (5) times receiving an average course evaluation from the students of: 4.55 out of 5 points.
Example of a Commercial Intelligent Decision Support System
One of the
most succesful application areas for IDSSs are help-desk systems. Hundreds such
systems have been deployed on-line worldwide, saving companies thousands of
dollars by reducing dramatically the number of 1-800 calls to the customer
support service.
An example of such a system is Lucas
Art's Yoda Help Desk
System. Lucas Arts produces computer games based on the Star Wars movie
series. If users experience problems installing or running the games, they'll
access the Yoda Help Desk System to get on-line help.
If you try the Yoda Help Desk System, you'll see that the system is asking
details about your software to pinpoint the problem. This system uses an AI
technique called conversational case-based reasoning, which we will cover in the
course.
Communication
All announcements, handouts, etc. will be posted in this
web site:
www.cse.lehigh.edu/~munoz/CSE335
Topics Covered So Far
- Introduction
- Case-based reasoning
- Decision Trees
- Induction of Decision Trees. Here are two solutions to the homework questions on counter-examples about decision trees: one (courtesy of: Siddarth Yagnam . K) and two (courtesy of: Giulio Finestrali)
- Induction of Decision Trees (closing)
- Case Representation
- Case Similarity
- Case retrieval
- Case retrieval with indexes
- Case adaptation
- Planning and plan adaptation
- Markov Decision Processes
- October 8: Pacing break
- Friday, October 12: Midterm test
- Monday, October 15: Presentation: programming and design projects
- Wednesday, October 24: Customer Support (Sicong Kuang)
- Friday, October 26: Decision making and finance (Konstantinos Hatalis)
- Monday, October 29: An application of CBR to oil drilling (Dustin Dannenhauer)
- Wednesday, October 31: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Tashwin Khurana)
- Friday, November 2: Maintenance of CBR systems (Aziz Doumith)
- Monday, November 5: Knowledge Containers (Giulio Finestrali)
- Wednesday, November 7: Bio-control: pest control, fish farms, and others (Choat Inthawongse)
- Friday, November 9: Recommender Systems (Eric Nalisnick)
- Monday, November 12: Help-desk systems (Siddarth Yagnam)
- Wednesday, November 14: Decision Support Systems in Medicine (Jennifer Bayzick)
- Thursday, November 15: Due date, programming project ONE: At some scheduled point that day you will present your project to me. Bring a printout as per instructions!
- Friday, November 16: Solution diversity for planning tasks
- Monday, November 19: Music composition (Hana Harrison)
- November 21-23: Thanksgiving Break
- Sunday November 25, 23:59 EST: Due date presentation of design project. All presentations should be email to instructor
- November 26, 28, 30, December 3; Design project presentations
- Wednesday December 5 (in class): Due date printed write-up of design project. Closing some loose ends
- December 7: RECAP
- December 18: Due date programming project TWO Schedule a meeting up to this day to present the project. Bring a printout as per instructions! (note: I won't be available December 13, 14, 17)
Student's Work
The following activities will be performed by the students taking this
course:
Grade Distribution
CSE 335:
- Homeworks: 15
- Programming project 1: 20
- Programming project 2: 20
- Design project: 25
- Test: 20
CSE 435:
- Homeworks: 15
- Programming project 1: 15
- Programming project 2: 15
- Design project: 25
- Test: 20
- presentation: 10
Grade conversions
92-100: A |
90-91: A- |
88-89: B+ |
82-87: B |
80-81: B- |
78-79: C+ |
72-77: C |
70-71: C- |
68-69: D+ |
62-67: D |
60-61: D- |
0-59: F |
Last update: Fri Dec. 07 1:09:34 EST 2012