Module Identifier | CS16010 | ||
Module Title | AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Mark Ratcliffe | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Professor Mark Lee, Dr Myra Wilson | ||
Mutually Exclusive | CS14020 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 lectures | |
Practical | 3 x 2 hr | ||
Assessment | Supplementary examination | Will take the same form, under the terms of the Department's policy | |
Exam | 2 Hours | 100% | |
Further details | http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/ModuleInfo/CS16010 |
2. Intelligent Agents - 1 Lecture
How can we build an intelligent robot? Sensing, Action and Cognition. The symbolic approach. Memory, representation and reasoning.
3. Machine Vision - 3 Lectures
How can robots see? The nature of the vision task. Computer vision and image processing.
4. Knowledge - 2 lectures
How can robots think? Knowledge representation methods. Reasoning and inference.
5. Expert Systems - 3 Lectures
How can human expertise be automated? Example applications and commercial successes. How to build an expert system - system concepts and architectures. Rule-based systems: design, operation and worked examples. Knowledge bases and knowledge based systems.
6. Artificial Brains - 2 Lectures
How can robot brains be built? Artificial neural nets, pattern recognition and learning.
7. Search and reasoning - 4 Lectures
Why do we need search? Evaluation of search strategies. Un-informed search techniques. Informed search techniques.
8. Machine Learning - 2 Lectures
How can a computer program learn? Inductive learning. Structural methods. Genetic algorithms.
9. Learning application - 2 Lectures
Case-based reasoning. Data mining.