Engineering Systems Design and Analysis

(ENG 504)
504)
Lecture 1
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Email: amhm@zu.edu.eg / amhm162@gmail.com
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Course Contents

(ENG 504) Engineering systems Design and Analysis :

Introduction,
System design process,
System modeling and optimization,
Design for operational feasibility,
Artificial intelligence,
Expert systems,
Applications.

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Scheduling (may change!)

I.

Artificial Intelligence (AI):

Introduction & Main Concepts.
Basic Techniques in Solving Problems.
Learning Methods, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks.
Applications.

II. Expert Systems (ES):

Introduction.
Components of ES.
Examples of ES.

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Materials

Text Books:
I.

Foundations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and

Knowledge Engineering.
Nikola K. Kasabov
Second printing

II. Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach

Third Edition
Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig
+ Available Articles on the Web.

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Assessment & Evaluation

Activity

4
Grade

Participation

5%

Assignments

10%

Quiz

10%

Oral Presentation

15%

Final Exam

60%

Your absence should not exceed 25% (~ 2 lectures).

There will be 2 assignments along this course.
The Quiz will be held during lecture # 6.

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI has been applied in many fields:

Internet (e.g., semantic search engines, spam fighting).
Robotics (e.g., driverless vehicles).
Speech recognition.
Entertainment.
Military (e.g., logistics planning).
Medical.
Machine translation.
Weather forecasting.
Others

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI started after WW II, the name appeared in 1956.

What is AI?
The way to make the machine think ?
What do you think about this problem?

The mission of this robot is to detect

mines (for example). Then there many
subtasks to do: obstacle detection and

If we place you instead of the

avoidance, determining mines positions,

robot, then what is your

sending data to base-station,

strategy? can you perform

this mission 100%?

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

So, it is a matter of how to think? And how to act?

From another point of view: would we like to have systems that mimics
humans (may succeed, may fail) or that always succeed?
Different approaches of AI:
success in
terms of

human
performance

rational performance

thought process and

reasoning

Systems that think humanly

Systems that think rationally

Behavior

Systems that act humanly

Systems that act rationally

More to do with hypothesis &

experimentation

More to do with
mathematics & engineering

mimics

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In this course:
intelligence is concerned mainly with rational action.

Ideally, an intelligent agent takes the best possible action in a situation.

A system is rational if it
does the "right thing,"
given what it knows.

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Techniques from AI can solve problems like:

Travelling Salesman Problem

Alex

Damietta

Suez
Cairo
Zag

Mans

Giza
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Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Techniques from AI can solve problems like:

8-Queens Problem

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Techniques from AI can solve problems like:

Job-Shop Scheduling
(Tasks on Machines)

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Techniques from AI can solve problems like:

Face recognition (images with noise !)
Speech recognition (signals with noise)
Hand-written text (with noise)
Others

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Expert Systems

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Expert Systems(ES)

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What is ES?
An expert system is software that uses a knowledge base of
human expertise for problem solving, or clarify uncertainties where
normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted.

Expert systems are most common in a specific problem domain, and are a
traditional application and/or subfield of artificial intelligence (AI).

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Expert Systems(ES)

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ES Components:

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

Expert Systems(ES)

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Applications:
Marketing
Virus detection
Hospitals and medical facilities
Repair and maintenance
Others

Dr. A. Helmi Eng. Sys. Design and Analysis (ENG 504)

Zagazig Univ-Eng. Faculty

2013/2014

Thanks