COURSE OBJECTIVES

  • To study the applications of AI and agent based approach to AI.
  • To study first-order predicate calculus, logical reasoning and problem solving using Prolog language.
  • To study and discuss various techniques and algorithms of AI used in general problem solving, optimization problems, constraint satisfaction problems, and game programming.
  • To familiarize students with various sub-areas of AI, such as expert systems, natural language processing and machine learning.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLO)

CLO: 1. Explain artificial intelligence, its characteristics and its application areas. (C1-Knowledge)
CLO: 2. Formulate real-world problems as state space problems, optimization problems or constraint satisfaction problems. (C4-Analysis)
CLO: 3. Select and apply appropriate algorithms and AI techniques to solve complex problems. (C3-Application)
CLO: 4. Design and develop an expert system by using appropriate tools and techniques. (C3-Application)

COURSE CONTENTS

  1. Defining AI; Turing’s test; Weak vs. Strong AI.
  2. Applications of AI; Agent based approach
  3. State space search: DFS, BFS, IDS algorithms
  4. Informed search: A* algorithm
  5. Optimization problems & Local search algorithms
  6. Genetic algorithms
  7. Constraint satisfaction problems
  8. Expert systems
  9. Game playing (adversarial search)
  10. Introduction to machine learning