HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING SCIENCE

COURSEOUTLINE
COURSE NAME: Artificial Intelligence CREDITS: 3 (lectures 2 hours, labs 2 hours) INSTRUCTOR:Sisay A. (sadugna@haramaya.edu.et ) COURSE OBJECTIVES

Develop a general appreciation of the goals, subareas, achievements and difficulties of AI. Understand the notions of rational behavior and intelligent agents. Knowledge of methods of blind as well as informed search and ability to practically apply the corresponding techniques in real life. General understanding of major concepts and approaches in knowledge representation, learning and other AI areas. Developing programming skills for AI applications Exposure to logic programming with Prolog.

COURSE CONTENT 1. Introduction ~ Definition of AI, Foundation and History of AI, How AI systems Differ from Human, Application of AI

2. Intelligent Agents ~ How Agents should act, Structure of Intelligent

Agents, Environment of Intelligent Agents

3. Problem Solving ~ Problems, Problem Solving Agents, Problem

formulation, Examples of Problems, Searching for Solutions

4. Search Strategies ~
i. Evaluating Searching Algorithms ii. Uninformed(Blind) Search Algorithms iii. Informed (Heuristic) Search Algorithms iv. Constraint Satisfaction Search

5. Knowledge and Reasoning: Propositional logic, FOL 6. Expert

Systems: Types, Architecture, Data Structures, and Implementations

TEXTBOOK: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd ed. S. Russell and P. Norvig, Prentice Hall, 2003 REFERENCES Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving, 6th ed. G. Luger, Addison Wesley, 2009 AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp and Java. G. Luger and W. Stubblefield, Addison Wesley, 2009 Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach. M. Tim Jones, Infinity Science Press, 2008 Principles of Expert System. P. Lucas, L. Van der Gaag. ASSESSMENT Assignments Projects participation and quizzes Final Examination 20 25 5 50 % % % %

Typically, percentage grades will be converted to letter grades as follows: [90, 100] [85, 90) [75, 85) A+ A B [60, 75) [50, 60) [0, 50) C D F

Some modification to the above scheme is possible based on the overall class results. ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF FILES AND INFORMATION Numerous files will be made available to you electronically during the semester: documents, lectures, examples, homeworks, etc. Conversely, you might be asked to submit completed assignments electronically. Our main tool for communication will be the course website available from http://ict.haramaya.edu/courses/ai Note that urgent announcements will also be posted at this site. Students are responsible to regularly check the announcement, documents and other uploaded materals. Failing to do so cannot be accepted as an excuse. PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism of any form will result in nullifying the results of all the participants of the deed, i.e., givers and takers. However, knowledge sharing (not copying!) is encouraged.