CSE3309

Artificial intelligence

(IT)

6 points + Two 1-hour lectures per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: CSE2303 or CSC2030, CSE2304 or CSC2040 and either CSE2394 or CSE3394 or CSC2940 or CSC3940 + Prohibitions: CSC2091, CSC3091, CSE2309, DGS3691, GCO3815, GCO7835, RDT3691

Synopsis: History and philosophy of artificial intelligence; intelligent agents; problem solving and search; knowledge representation and reasoning (extension of material on propositional and first-order logic for artificial intelligence applications, situation calculus, planning, frames and semantic networks); expert systems overview (production systems, certainty factors); reasoning under uncertainty (belief networks compared to other approaches such as fuzzy logic); machine learning (decision trees, neural networks, genetic algorithms).

Assessment: Examination (3 hours): 60% + Assignments: 40%