Artificial Intelligence

Code:

CC2006

Acronym:

CC2006

Level:

200

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Computer Science

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ines/aulas/1617/IA/IA.html
Responsible unit:	Department of Computer Science
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Computer Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:B	0	Official Study Plan	3	-	6	56	162
L:CC	55	Plano de estudos a partir de 2014	2	-	6	56	162
L:M	6	Official Study Plan	2	-	6	56	162
			3
L:Q	0	study plan from 2016/17	3	-	6	56	162
MI:ERS	92	Plano Oficial desde ano letivo 2014	2	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Objectives: Study fundamental concepts and techniques of general use for Artificial Intelligence.

Learning outcomes and competences

skills:
- Capacity for judicious choice of Artificial Intelligence techniques for use in concrete applications,
- Ability to deploy applications based on these techniques.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

It is recommended that the student has attended at least the foloowing two disciplines: Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures.

Program

1. Search techniques : trees and graphs, search algorithms: depth-first , breadth-first, iterative deepening. Informed search algorithms: greedy search, A* and A* with limited memory. Heuristics. Iterative improvement algorithms: hill-climbing and random -restart hill-climbing, simulated annealing. Constraint Satisfaction Problems: arc-consistency methods. Methods forward checking and lookahead. Adversarial search: minimax and alpha -beta cut.

2 . Knowledge-based systems: representation and manipulation of knowledge, propositional and first order logic, situation calculus. Inference in first order logic: backward chaining and forward chaining, resolution, refutation. Deductive systems.

3. Planning and Robotics.

4 . Machine learning: inductive systems. Decision trees, information gain. The WEKA tool. Data Analysis.

5 . Biologically inspired models: neural networks and genetic algorithms .

Mandatory literature

S. Russell, P. Norvig; Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd ed, Prentice Hall, 2009
Nils Nilsson; Artifical Intelligence: a new synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 1558604677

Complementary Bibliography

P. Winston; Artificial Intelligence, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1992

Teaching methods and learning activities

Information available at http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ines/aulas/1617/IA/IA.html

Software

WEKA
Aleph

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho laboratorial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

All students can attend the final exam. The exam has two components (part 1 and part 2). The student needs to achieve minimum score in each part (for more information, please, see the calculation used for the final evaluation).

Calculation formula of final grade

2 tests: T1 and T2 weighing 50% each.

         Each test consists of a theoretical part and a practical part.

         The practical part of each test will focus on the practical activities developed during the practical sessions.

         The theoretical part is worth 6 points and the practical part is worth 4 points, for each test.



To be approved, the students, in addition to positive assessment, must have a minimum score on the tests:

    - 40% in the theoretical part and 40% in practical part, for each test



If the sum T1 + T2 >= 9.5 and the student meets the criteria of minimum score, he/she is not required to take the exam..



The tests are not compulsory. If a student is unable to attend one or both tests, he/she must take the Normal exam or the Recurso exam, if necessary.



Even if the student has taken one of the tests or both, he/she is also entitled to attend the examination of the regular season or the examination of the appeal period.



The examination will be made on the same model of the tests, with two components:

    1 - topics related to the T1 test (with theoretical and practical parts)

    2 - topics related to the T2 test (with theoretical and practical parts)



Students may choose one of the components or both.



Attention: even with a positive evaluation, if the student does not obtain a minimum score in some parts of the tests or examinations, he/she will be automatically disqualified.