Course 4190.408: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Instructor: Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang
TA: Dong-Yeon Cho (Room: 301-417, Tel.: 880-1835)
Classroom: 302-208
Time: Mon 16:00-17:15 and Wed 16:00-17:15
Textbook
• Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Nils J. Nilsson, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
References
• (1) Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present and Future (in Korean), In Computers in the 21st Century, Chap. 11, Kyohaksa, pp.176-200, 1998.
  
• (2) Biointelligence = Bioinformatics + Artificial Intelligence (in Korean), Communications of the KISS, 18(8): 90-100, 2000.
• (3) Learning and Optimization by Artificial Evolution (in Korean), ICASE Magazine, 1(3):52-61, 1995.
  
• (4) Neural Networks (in Korean), Natural Sciences, Vol. 8, Spring, Seoul National University, May 2000.
  
• (5) The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil, 1999.
  
• (6) Technofutures, James Canton, 1999.
  
Evaluation: Two exams (50%), three small-scale projects (40%), etc. (10%)
Projects:
• Project #1: Machine Learning using Neural Networks
• Project #2: Solving Traveling Saleman Problems with Genetic Algorithms
• Project #3: Diagnosis using Bayesian Networks

Schedule
• Week 1 (9/2, 9/4): Introduction, Stimulus-Response Agents (Chapter 1, Chapter 2), Homework #1
• Week 2 (9/9, 9/11): Neural Networks (Chapter 3), Project #1
• Week 3 (9/16, 9/18): Machine Evolution (Chapter 4)
• Week 4: Chu-Seok, Project #2
• Week 5 (9/30, 10/2): State Machines, Robot Vision, Agents That Plan (Chapter 5, Chapter 6-1, Chapter 6-2, Chapter 7)
• Week 6 (10/7, 10/9): Uninformed Search, Heuristic Search, Planning Acting and Learning (Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10)
• Week 7 (10/14, 10/16): Alternative Search Formulations and Applications, Adversarial Search (Chapter 11, Chapter 12)
• Week 8: Reserved (10/21), Exam (10/23)
• Week 9 (10/28, 10/30): Reasoning with Uncertain Information, Learning and Acting with Bayes Nets (Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Aux 20), Project#3
• Week 10 (11/4, 11/6): The Propositional Calculus, Resolutions in the Propositional Calculus, The Predicate Calculus (Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15), Decision Tree
• Week 11 (11/11, 11/13): Resolutions in the Predicate Calculus, Knowledge-Based Systems, Representing Commonsense Knowledge (Chapter 16, Chapter 17-1,  Chapter17-2, Chapter 18)
• Week 12 (11/18, 11/20): The Situation Calculus, Planning (Chapter 21, Chapter 22)
• Week 13 (11/25, 11/27): Multiple Agents, Communication among Agents (Chapter 23, Chapter 24)
• Week 14 (12/2, 12/4): Agent Architectures (Chapter 25), Intelligent Agents
• Week 15: Exam (12/11)
• Week 16: Reserved