Artificial Intelligence

Table of contents:

1. News
2. About this course
3. Schedule and reading
4. Assignments, exams, grades

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1. News

• The exam has been corrected and can be picked up at the IT-office (from Nov 8).
  
• Assignment 3 is expected to be corrected on Nov 9.
  
• Answers to the exam (2010-10-19).
  
• 28/9 Note that the exam has moved to the afternoon (14-17) of October 19.
• Slides from the Natural Computation lecture by Olle.
  
• 23/9 Assignment 3 is in place.
  
• 8/9. Assignment 2 is in place.
  
• 21/8. This page created, lecture (except guest lectures) in place. Assignment 1 is in place.
  

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2. About this course

The Swedish name of this course is Artificiell intelligens, code 1DL340.
The course counts for 5 ECTS credits. The course plan is here.
The course page in Studentportalen.

Teaching staff

	Name	E-mail	Room	Phone
Lecturer	Roland Bol	Roland.Bol@it.uu.se	1356	018-471 7606
Lecturer	Mats Cedvall	Mats.Cedvall@it.uu.se	2322	018-471 1029 018-471 2973
Assistent	Nikos Nikoleris	Nikos.Nikoleris@it.uu.se	1239	018-471 1049

Guest lecturer

Olle Gällmo

Course start

• Students who have been accepted (antagen) to the course and exchange students will be registered at the first lecture. It is also possible to register through Studentportalen.
• The course will be given in English. Assignments may be handed in in English or Swedish.

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3. Schedule and reading

• Reading refers to "Artificial Intelligence" by George Luger, 6th edition.
  
• "lektion" is the Swedish word for an interactive problem-solving session, where no new material is presented.

A rough time-budget, per week:

• lectures, 4h
• reading, 4h
• assignments, 4h
  

week	day	time	room	topic	who	reading	assignments
35	Tue 31	10	1211	What is AI? History of AI.	RB,MC, OG	1, 16
	Wed 1	10	1311	Search introduction The Missionaries and cannibals game	RB, MC	3.0, 3.2 + more
36	Mon 6	10	1311	Heuristic search methods 8puzzle	MC	4.0-4.3, 4.5	1. Short paper
	Thu 9	8	1311	Search in playing games	RB	4.4 + more
37	Mon 13	13	1311	lektion: search A* and alpha-beta Solutions to A*	MC/RB		2. Game program
	Tue 14	10	1311	Knowledge Representation, Planning	RB	7  (parts) 8.4
38	Mon 20	10	1211	Expert systems	RB	6.2 (part) 8.0-8.3
	Thu 23	13	1211	Match midcourse evaluation introduction to learning	RB	10.1, 10.4
39	Mon 27	10	1111	Learning, inspired by nature (Pdf 1.4M)	OG	11,12 (parts)
	Wed 29	15	1111	Learning (induction, learning as search)	RB	10.2.2, 10.3, 10.6.2
40	Mon 4	10	1111	Uncertainty Proposed solutions Icy Roads without numbers	MC	5.2-5.4 9.2, 9.3	3. Implementing a small expert system in Match
	Tue 5	13	1311	Lektion: learning	RB
	Thu 7	10	1311	AI in computer games	OG
41	Mon 11	10	1111	Understanding natural language	MC	15.0-15.3 (not 15.2.2)
	Wed 13	13	1111	questions, solutions, course evaluation	RB, MC
42	Tue 19	14-17	5	exam, Polacksbacken
2	Thu 13	14-17		re-exam, Campus 1477, Gymnastiksalen
Aug				re-exam

4. Assignments, exams, grades

Since the course in this form is quite new, there are few "real" previous exams.
Exam 091020 with solutions.
We provide some sample exams, made up from real exam questions.
Edited version of the exam 090601. Solutions.
Edited version of the exam 080529 with solutions.
Edited version of the exam 070604. Solutions.

There are 3 obligatory assignments, as listed in the schedule. Detailed instructions for each assignment will follow.
Assignments will be graded pass/completion/fail only. The grade for the course will be determined by the exam grade.
Passing the exam gives 3 study points (=ECTS credits), the assignments 2 study points.

Assignment 1

Deadline: Friday 10 September at 12.  This assignment is made individually.
Hand in through Studentportalen. If you have no access yet, hand in by email to Mats Cedvall.
(The file area in Studentportalen is open until after the deadline, in case a student has a valid reason to request an extension. But remember, every delivery is time-stamped.)

Assignment 2

Deadline: Friday 1 October at 17.
Hand in through Studentportalen. You are allowed and encouraged to work in pairs.
Only one copy per pair please, but make it clear who both partners are!

Assignment 3

Deadline:  Friday 22 October at 17.
You are allowed and encouraged to work in pairs.
Assignment 3 uses the tool Match.  If you take the course, you can download Match from the File Area in Studentportalen.
Upload the .mkb files in Studentportalen. Only one copy per pair please, but make it clear who both partners are!