IF7301 SOFT COMPUTING - ANNA UNIV PG 1ST SEM SYLLABUS

ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

REGULATIONS - 2013

M.E. APPLIED ELECTRONICS

IF7301 SOFT COMPUTING

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
 To learn the key aspects of Soft computing and Neural networks.
 To know about the components and building block hypothesis of Genetic algorithm.
 To understand the features of neural network and its applications
 To study the fuzzy logic components
 To gain insight onto Neuro Fuzzy modeling and control.
 To gain knowledge in machine learning through Support vector machines.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO SOFT COMPUTING
Evolution of Computing - Soft Computing Constituents – From Conventional AI to
Computational Intelligence - Machine Learning Basics

UNIT II GENETIC ALGORITHMS
Introduction, Building block hypothesis, working principle, Basic operators and Terminologies
like individual, gene, encoding, fitness function and reproduction, Genetic modeling:
Significance of Genetic operators, Inheritance operator, cross over, inversion & deletion,
mutation operator, Bitwise operator, GA optimization problems, JSPP (Job Shop Scheduling
Problem), TSP (Travelling Salesman Problem),Differences & similarities between GA & other
traditional methods, Applications of GA.

UNIT III NEURAL NETWORKS
Machine Learning using Neural Network, Adaptive Networks – Feed Forward Networks
– Supervised Learning Neural Networks – Radial Basis Function Networks - Reinforcement
Learning – Unsupervised Learning Neural Networks – Adaptive Resonance Architectures –
Advances in Neural Networks.

UNIT IV FUZZY LOGIC
Fuzzy Sets – Operations on Fuzzy Sets – Fuzzy Relations – Membership Functions-Fuzzy
Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning – Fuzzy Inference Systems – Fuzzy Expert Systems – Fuzzy
Decision Making

UNIT V NEURO-FUZZY MODELING
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems – Coactive Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling – Classification
and Regression Trees – Data Clustering Algorithms – Rule base Structure Identification –
Neuro-Fuzzy Control – Case Studies.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES
 Implement machine learning through Neural networks.
 Develop a Fuzzy expert system.
 Model Neuro Fuzzy system for clustering and classification.
 Write Genetic Algorithm to solve the optimization problem
 Use Support Vector Machine for enabling the machine learning

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