Artificial Intelligence
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Computer Science |
Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S 
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese and english
Obs.: Materials may be made available in English. Classes will be taught in Portuguese.
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 strongly recommended that the student has attended at least the Data Structures discipline.
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 Intelligent Robotics. POP and CPOP algorithms.
4 . Machine learning: inductive systems. Decision trees, information gain. Probabilistic reasoning. Belief networks. Learning belief networks. Hidden Markov models.
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
Theoretical and theoretical-practical lectures.
Practical classes in the lab.
Practical assignments in the lab.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
60,00 |
Trabalho prático ou de projeto |
40,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
designation |
Time (hours) |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
15,00 |
Estudo autónomo |
60,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
48,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
11,00 |
Trabalho laboratorial |
28,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
All students can attend the final exam. 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
The final grade will be given by:
F = 0.6*E + 0.4*P
F: final grade
E: Exam
Q: Practical work
There are 2 practical assignments. Each one is worth 4 values.
To be approved, students must have a grade higher than 1.6 in each practical work.
To be approved, students must have a score higher than 7 points in the exam.
Classification improvement
Final examination (regular season) or appeal season (Recurso).
Observations
Estruturas de Dados