1. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Course Review

2. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Course Introduction, Fuzzy Sets & Fuzzy Logic Course information: overview of course; logistics and administrivia, textbook and other main references, evaluation scheme, academic honesty policy, tentative course schedule; resources Background material on fuzzy logic; applications of fuzzy logic

3. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Finish Fuzzy Logic and Begin Rough Sets Why use Fuzzy Logic. How does it work? How is Fuzzy Logic used? Linguistic variables. Examples. Rough sets, basic concepts, decision tables, dependency of attributes, dispensable and indispensable, reducts and core. Membership functions, properties of rough membership. Rough sets and fuzzy sets. Examples Various reducts and Rough Sets Applications

4. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Neural Networks Neural Networks. Questions. Motivation. Application. Introduction Fundamentals. Framework for distributed processing. Network topologies. Training of ANN’s. Notation. Perceptron. Back Propagation Recurrent networks and examples

5. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Evolutionary Computing Evolutionary computing is soft computing. It is also: Natural computing, Optimization search, Heuristics, Local search Genetic Algorithms & Evolution Strategies Evolutionary & Genetic Programming

6. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Probabilistic Reasoning Probabilistic reasoning, inference, deduction, inductive, abductive. Formal logic, probability theory Bayesian Networks

7. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Granular Computing

8. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Granular Computing

9. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Applications, Intelligent Systems design, Hybrid Systems A Bayesian System Cancer Tumor Detection

10. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Ontology and Representation

11. CSE4403 3.0 & CSE6002E - Soft Computing Winter Semester, 2011 Concluding Remarks A Maxim for Vikings Here is a fact that should help you fight a bit longer: Things that don’t actually kill you outright make you stronger.