ITCS 6150/8150             Intelligent Systems                 Spring 2006


Textbook:
Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach
Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Prentice Hall Series in AI, 2003

What subjects and when will be covered:

Date Topic Reading Slides
Week 1 Jan 18 Introduction
Agents
Uniformed Searches		 Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3		 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 2 Jan 25 Informed Searches Chapter 4 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 3 Feb 1 Iniformed Searches Chapter 4 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 4 Feb 8 Advesarial Search Chapter 4
Chapter 6		 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 5 Feb 15 Review and
Project Assignment
Week 6 Feb 22 Logical Agents
Propositional Logic		 Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 7 Mar 1 Propositional Logic
Review (before exam)		 Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PDF
Week 8 Mar 8 Spring Break
Week 9 Mar 15 Midterm Exam
Week 10 Mar 22 Review (after exam)
First-Order Logic
Chapter 8
PowerPoint
Week 11 March 29 First-Order Logic Chapter 9 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 12 April 5 First-Order Logic
Complex Decisions		 Chapter 9
Chapter 17		 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 13 April 12 Review
Week 14 Apr 19 Statistical Learning
Decision Trees
Clustering		 Chapter 20
 PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Applet
Week 15 April 26 Review (by TA)
May 1 PROJECT DUE DATE
Week 16 May 3 Association Rules PowerPoint
Final May 10 6:30-9:15pm Final Exam
Ontology
DAML Ontology Library 		Link
Link


ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • [Exercises - Last Class] [Solutions - Last Class]
  • RSES [Rules Discovery]
  • RSES [Discretization]
  • Association Rules
  • Intelligent Agents or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • More about Intelligent Agents (PPT format)
  • Solving Problems by Searching or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Informed Search Algorithms or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Constraint Satisfaction Problems or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Game Playing or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Agents and Propositional Logic or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Logic Agents (PPT format)
  • First Order Logic (FOL) or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Lecture I (Logic)(PPT format)
  • Lecture II (Logic)(PPT format)
  • Lecture III (Logic)(PPT format)
  • Inference in FOL or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Learning(PPT format)
  • Knowledge Discovery (PPT format)
  • Planning(PPT format)
  • Planning in Real World(PPT format)
  • Problem 3 (Solution)

    • Midterm: March 15 (Thursday), 2007 (in Woodward Hall 135)
    • Project - deadline to submit: May 1, 2007
    • Final: May 10, 2007 (Thursday), 5:00-7:45pm (in Woodward Hall 135)

    Grades

    • Midterm - 30 points, Final - 30 points, Project - 40 points (maximum)
    • Grade A from 86 to 100 points, Grade B from 71 to 85 points, Grade C from 56 to 70 points.

  • Sample Problems for the Midterm Exam

  • Sample Problems

    Class meetings:

                Location: Woodward Hall 135
                Time: Thursday, 6:30-9:15pm


    Instructor:       Zbigniew W. Ras

    Office: Location: Woodward Hall 430C
    Telephone: 704-687-8574
    Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday: 4:30-6:15pm
    e-mail: ras@uncc.edu

    TA:       Xin Zhang

    Office: Location: Woodward Hall 432 (KDD Lab.)
    Telephone: 704-687-8546
    Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday [3:00-4:30pm]
    e-mail: xzhang@uncc.edu