Activity objectives:

- Practice one of the course content: Expert System (ES).

- Encourage collaboration and experience sharing between students.

Activity Marks: 3 marks

Final deliverable: Oral presentation to run the ES (5 minutes only).

Groups distribution: 1-3 students in each group.

Due date: Week 14.

Instructions:

- You are required to build a small ES to give a solution/conclusion to any kind of problems.

- Your ES should contain at least 10 variables/attributes.

- You will use these variables/attributes to build your rules in a tree form, where tree's leaves are your problem solutions.

- Build your ES using the following website : http://www.mcgoo.com.au/esbuilder/index.php

Sample [1]: Problem of decide whether to WAIT for a table in a restaurant or NOT.

- Problem's variables/attributes:

Alternate: alternative restaurant nearby (yes, no)

Bar: bar area to wait (yes, no)

Fri/Sat: true on Fridays and Saturdays (yes, no)

Hungry: whether we are hungry (yes, no)

Patrons: how many people in restaurant (none, some, full)

raining: raining outside (yes, no)

reservation: whether we made a reservation (yes, no)

WaitEstimate: estimated wait (60)

Patrons Non ome Full WaitEstimate 30+60 10 Alternate Yes 0 410 Hungry Yes LIn 0 Yes Yes Alternate Fri/Sat Yes Reservation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Raining Bar Yes Yes Yes all leaves Yes or NO Yes Yes 0