Introduction to Soft Computing

By Prof. Debasis Samanta | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 1865

Soft computing is an emerging approach to computing which parallel the remarkable ability of the human mind to reason and learn in an environment of uncertainty and imprecision. Soft computing is based on some biological inspired methodologies such as genetics, evolution, ant’s behaviors, particles swarming, human nervous systems, etc. Now, soft computing is the only solution when we don’t have any mathematical modeling of problem solving (i.e., algorithm), need a solution to a complex problem in real time, easy to adapt with changed scenario and can be implemented with parallel computing. It has enormous applications in many application areas such as medical diagnosis, computer vision, hand written character recondition, pattern recognition, machine intelligence, weather forecasting, network optimization, VLSI design, etc.

INTENDED AUDIENCE :

The course is of interdisciplinary nature and students from
CSE
IT
EE
ECE
CE
ME, etc. can take this course.

PREREQUISITES :NIL
INDUSTRY SUPPORT :All IT companies, in general.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Computer Science and Engineering
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	18 Jan 2021
End Date :	12 Mar 2021
Enrollment Ends :	01 Feb 2021
Exam Date :	21 Mar 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Soft Computing, Introduction to Fuzzy logic,Fuzzy membership functions,Operations on Fuzzy sets

Week 2: Fuzzy relations, Fuzzy propositions, Fuzzy implications, Fuzzy inferences

Week 3: Defuzzyfication Techniques-I, Defuzzyfication Techniques-II, Fuzzy logic controller-I, Fuzzy logic controller-II

Week 4: Solving optimization problems, Concept of GA, GA Operators: Encoding,GA Operators: Selection-I

Week 5: GA Operators: Selection-II, GA Operators: Crossover-I, GA Operators: Crossover-II, GA Operators: Mutation

Week 6: Introduction to EC-I, Introduction to EC-II, MOEA Approaches: Non-Pareto, MOEA Approaches: Pareto-I

Week 7: MOEA Approaches: Pareto-II, Introduction to ANN, ANN Architecture

Week 8: ANN Training-I, ANN Training-II, ANN Training-III, Applications of ANN

Books and references

1. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithm Melanic Mitchell (MIT Press)

2. Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Multi-objective, Optimization Problems (2^nd Edition), Collelo, Lament, Veldhnizer ( Springer)

3. Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications Timothy J. Ross (Wiley)

4. Neural Networks and Learning Machines Simon Haykin (PHI)

Instructor bio

Prof. Debasis Samanta

IIT Kharagpur

Debasis Samanta holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interests and work experience spans the areas of Computational Intelligence, Data Analytics, Human Computer Interaction, Brain Computing and Biometric Systems. Dr. Samanta currently works as a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 21 March 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
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CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

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