| Course Code: | CSC412MC3 / CSC412SC3 |
| Course Title: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Academic Credits: | 03 (45 Hours of Lectures and Tutorials) |
| Objectives: | To provide in-depth knowledge on design and analysis of intelligent systems for solving problems that are difficult or impractical to resolve using traditional approaches. |
| ILOs: | - Formulate an efficient Intelligent system model for a problem expressed in natural language
- Apply appropriate uninformed, informed or local search algorithms for solving problems
- Devise a plan of action to achieve a goal using standard AI methods
- Demonstrate the working of natural language processing techniques
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| Contents: | - Introduction: Practical examples of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Environments, Intelligent behaviour, Rational behaviour & Turing test
- Problem-solving by Searching: Problem-Solving Agents, Uninformed Search Strategies, Informed (Heuristic) Search Strategies
- Local search and optimization algorithms: Hill climbing search, Simulated annealing, Local beam search, Genetic algorithms, searching in different environments, adversarial search
- Planning: Classical planning, planning as state-space search
- Learning Methodologies: Learning by Analysing Difference, by Recording Cases, by Correcting Mistakes, by Building Multiple models, by Building Identification Tree
- Knowledge representation: Ontology engineering, Categories and objects, events
- Natural Language Processing: Language models, Text classification, Information retrieval, Information extraction
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| Teaching Methods: | Lecture by Lecturer, Recitation oral questions |
| Assessment/ Evaluation Details: | - In-course Assessments ——————- 30%
- End-of-course Examination ————- 70%
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| Recommended Readings: | - Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2010
- George F Luger, Artificial Intelligence – Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving,
6th Ed., Pearson & Addison Wesley, New York, London, Singapore, 2009 - Patrick H. Winston, Artificial Intelligence, 1st Ed., Addison Wesley, New York, England, Singapore, 1993
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