Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Programare bazată pe componente - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MID1007	Rule-Based Programming	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
3	2+1+1	speciality	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
MOTOGNA Simona Claudia	Ph.D.	Assoc.Prof.	Programming  Languages and Methods	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
The course will introduce students to a completely different way of programming, in which you specify rules of behavior. It will discuss paradigms that allow rule constructions, or addition of rules, and the application areas for which they are suited.	

IV. Course contents
This course emphasizes program structure as well as functional and rule-based programming, which is compared to more traditional procedural programming. The unit aims to demonstrate medium to large scale rule-based program design, to survey the application areas for which rule based techniques are best suited, and to provide an introduction to the implementation and semantics of rules. Several case studies will be considered in order to prove this approach.	

V. Bibliography
1.R Bird and P Wadler. An Introduction to Functional Programming (2nd Edition if available). Prentice-Hall. 1996
2. I Bratko. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence. Addison-Wesley
3. Friedman-Hill, Ernest, JESS in Action, Manning, Greenwich, CT, 2003.
4. Kowalski, T., Levy, L. &#8211; Rule-Based Programming, Springer, 1996
5. Mitchell, J. &#8211; Concepts in Programming Languages, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003 
6. S Thomson. The Craft of Functional Programming. Addison-Wesley. 1996.
7. Jess Homepage - http://www.jessrules.com/jess/index.shtml
8. JUnit homepage &#8211; www.junit.org

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
The students will be asked to make a presentation of a paper from an additional reference and present it in public, during seminar hours. Also during the semester they have to work on a project that will implement rule based concepts in a medium application written in an object-oriented or component based language. The final grade will be computed based on the following algorithm: 
- paper presentation 20% 
- project 30% 
- final exam 50%

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Assoc.Prof. MOTOGNA Simona Claudia, Ph.D.