In this second week, we started talking with our inspirer/guide, professor Constantino Martins. Before our first meeting, we sent him an e-mail with our original ideas so that when we had the meeting, the teacher was already framed and could give us his opinion about our thoughts. After our meeting with him, we came up to a conclusion that either the Telecommunications e-commerce field or car e-commerce field were the best ideas to proceed. With a quick team talk with concluded that the e-commerce car field was the best option for us because it’s an area that we enjoy, and we found more appealing. Not only that, but we also think that it was going to be easier to have an expert in this field because Tomás’s father is a car sales manager and owns a selling cars company. Which is basically perfect for our theme.
After that we talked with our inspirer to see if he agreed to us which he did. Thus, our expert will be Rui Magalhães, a car sales manager who owns a company that resells cars. He has been on the business for more than thirty (30) years being head of sales for Nissan and Citroen.
As for curricular units, on Knowledge Engineering (ENGCIA) we kept talking about expert systems and started working with Drools Engine, where we basically started to get familiarize with this management system. As for Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (PPROGIA), we kept working in logic programming, acquiring more concepts and principles about it. We also got introduced to the Minimax algorithm which is designed to determinate the optimal strategy for MAX, and thus to decide the best first move. Furthermore, we also started to practice exercises about expert systems.