CIS 579 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2006

 

Bruce R, Maxim, PhD

Associate Professor

Office: 233 CIS

Phone: 313-436-9155
e-mail: bmaxim@umich.edu

Classroom:    1430 PEC

Meeting Time: 6:00-9:00

              MW

Office Hours: 4:30-5:30

              MW

 

     This course is intended to provide an overview of the problems and methods studied in the field of artificial intelligence. The focus of the course will be on the study of methods of knowledge representation, data structures, and algorithms useful to the development of intelligent programs. The course will also include discussion of important applications of AI methodology.

 

     Your scores on the projects and will determine your grade in this course. There will be 4 projects using several AI tools (including LISP) not all of which will require the development of complete programs from scratch. You will be expected to do a term project and to present your term project orally. The smaller projects will count for 50% of your grade, the oral presentation 10%, and the term project 40%. Late work will be penalized, as will evidence of cheating in any form.

 

Texts:  Artificial Intelligence (5th Edition) by G. Luger,

        Addison-Wesley, 2004. (Required)

 

        Lisp (3rd Edition) by P. Winston and B. Horn,

        Addison-Wesley, 1989. (Required)

 

URL:    www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis579.html

 

 

 

Date

 

Topic

Reading

05-08

Lisp: Primitives, Predicates, and

Conditionals

 

L1,W1-W4

05-10

Lisp: Iteration, I/O, Recursion,

Data Structures, and Macros

 

W5-W12,W17

05-15

Intelligent Search

L3-L4,W19

 

 

05-17

Game Playing

 

Project 1 due

L4,L6

05-22

Production Systems and Matching

 

Expert Systems

L6,W24

 

L8,W25-W27

05-24

Uncertainty

 

Probabilistic Reasoning

L5

 

L9

05-29

Memorial Day Holiday

 

 

 

 

05-31

Class starts at 7:30 (CIS 479 Exam)

 

Knowledge Engineering Tools

 

 

Notes

06-05

Project 2 due

 

Predicate Logic and Prolog

 

 

L2,L15

06-07

Knowledge Representation

 

Planning

L7

 

L13

06-12

Intelligent Agents and SOAR

 

Machine Learning

L7,L17

 

L10

06-14

Neural Networks

 

Project 3 due

L11

 

 

06-19

No class CIS 479 Exam

 

 

 

 

06-21

Genetic Algorithms

 

Natural Language Understanding

L12

 

L14

06-26

Object-Oriented AI

 

Project 4 due

L16,L17

06-28

 

Term Project Oral Presentations

(7:30 - 10:30 pm)