Course Code: CS561
Course Name: Artificial Intelligence
Prerequisites: CS201
Syllabus: Introduction to intelligent agents. Problem Solving: Searching, Intelligent search methods, Game Playing. Knowledge and Reasoning: Building a Knowledge Base. Inference in First Order Logic, Logical reasoning systems. Planning. Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning Systems. Learning from Observations: Inductive Learning, Learning Decision Trees, Computational Learning Theory, Explanation Based Learning. Genetic algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Approaches. Introduction to Natural Language Processing. The course will include programming projects involving programming in Lisp, Prolog and C++.
Texts: 1. S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd Ed, Prentice Hall, 2003
References: 1. E. Rich and K. Knight, Artificial Intelligence, McGraw Hill, 1991.
2. P. H. Winston and B. K. P. Horn, Lisp, 3rd Ed, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
3. P. Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp, Morgan Kauffman, 1991.
4. I. Bratko, Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence, 3rd Ed, Addison-Wesley, 2001.