Syllabus_AI

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers

University Politehnica of Bucharest

Department of Engineering Science
English Stream

Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2008

Course Information

Instructor: Professor Adina Magda Florea
Email: adina@cs.pub.ro
Url: http://turing.cs.pub.ro/~adina

Teaching Assistant: Serban Radu
Email: serbanradu@hotmail.com

Course Description
This course is about the theory and practice of Artificial Intelligence and is intended to give a broad overview of the major areas of AI. We will study modern techniques of how to build computer programs which represent task-relevant knowledge and make rational decisions in order to optimally get the problem solution.
By the end of this course, you will have a thorough understanding of what is artificial intelligence, of the algorithmic foundations of AI, of what type of problems are best solved using AI techniques, and of how you should address and solve these problems. You will also see how the methods presented in the course are applicable in different areas such as industry, medicine, finance, etc.

Syllabus

Course

· Introduction to AI

· Search Methods: Blind search, Heuristic search, Constraint satisfaction problems

· Game playing

· Symbolic logic

· Theorem proving. Prolog

· Rule-based systems

· Frame systems

· Uncertain reasoning

· Automatic planning

· Machine learning: inductive learning