Module Information

Module Identifier
SEM6120
Module Title
Introduction to Intelligent Systems
Academic Year
2014/2015
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 1
Pre-Requisite
MEng year 4
Other Staff

Course Delivery

Delivery Type Delivery length / details
Lecture 20 hours
 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment Report:  Oral presentation and discussion of analytic report on scienctific paper(s)  40%
Semester Assessment Essay:  topic in Intelligent Systems - 3000 words  60%
Supplementary Assessment Resubmission of failed/nonsubmitted coursework components or ones of equivalent value.  100%

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Describe and use the basic principles of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Be able to reflect on project needs.

Practically apply AI and ML principles to meet those needs.

Present the material they have learned in an informed, clear manner.

Demonstrate understanding and insight into the material that they are presenting.

Aims

This module introduces the key ideas in Artificial Intelligence and ensures that all students are at roughly the same level before moving on to the specialist modules.

Brief description

This module introduces the key ideas in Artificial Intelligence and ensures all students are at roughly the same level before moving on to the specialist modules.

Content

1. Introduction - 2 hours
General introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), including discussion of what AI is, its history, definitions, and philosophical debates on the issue (the Turing test and the Chinese room). Ethical issues.
2. Search - 8 hours
Why search is important in AI and how to go about it. This includes both informed and uninformed strategies. Evolutionary search and swarm intelligence.
3. Knowledge Representation - 2 hours
Ways of representing knowledge in a computer-understandable way. Semantic networks, rules. Examples of the importance of KR.
4. Propositional and First-Order Logic - 4 hours
The backbone of knowledge representation.
5. Rule-based Systems - 2 hours
How can human expertise be automated? How to build an expert system - system concepts and architectures. Rule-based systems: design, operation, reasoning, backward and forward chaining. Knowledge acquisition.
6. Neural networks and subsymbolic learning - 2 hours
We can find solutions using search, but how can we remember solutions, learn from them and adapt them to new situations? This will cover perceptrons, single-layer and multi-layer networks.

Module Skills

Skills Type Skills details
Application of Number Inherent to subject
Communication Seminar
Improving own Learning and Performance Inherent to subject
Information Technology Inherent to subject
Personal Development and Career planning Encourages students to see roles in subject for career and personal development
Problem solving Inherent to subject
Research skills Essay
Subject Specific Skills Advanced Artificial Intelligence skills
Team work

Reading List

Essential Reading
Russell, Stuart J. (c2010.) Artificial intelligence :a modern approach /Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig ; contributing writers, Ernest Davis ... [et al.]. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall Primo search
Recommended Text
Luger, George F. (c2009.) Artificial intelligence :structures and strategies for complex problem solving /George F. Luger. 6th ed. (International ed.) Pearson Addison-Wesley Primo search

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7