Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 1-AIN-304

The course objectives are to provide the students with basic insight into artificial intelligence, that can further be extended in the master programmes. The course covers the basics of symbolic and nature-inspired artificial intelligence. The theory is combined with practical exercises.

Course schedule

Type	Day	Time	Room	Lecturer
Lecture	Thursday	11:30	M-IV	Mária Markošová Igor Farkaš
Exercises (students of mIKV)	Thursday	16:30	H-6	Peter Gergeľ
Exercises (other students)	Monday (next week)	9:50	H-6	Juraj Holas

Syllabus

Date	Topic	References
28.09.	What is artificial intelligence, agent-robot going around an obstacle, properties and types of agents.	todo R&N, chap.X
05.10.	Search, state space, tree search, searching agent, uninformed search.	todo
12.10.	informed search, graph search versus tree search, methods of implementation, heuristics and their properties.	R&N (2010), todo
19.10.	Constraint satisfaction problem: definition, heuristics, methods of solving.	R&N (2010), ch.X
26.10.	Basics of game theory, minimax algorithm.	todo
02.11.	More complex agents: making inferences and learning. Propositional logic, making inferences.	todo
09.11.	Learning from examples: supervised learning, perceptron, classification, regression, model selection, generalization, regularization.	R&N (2010), todo
16.11.	Nonparametric models, methods of nearest neighobors, finding nearest neighbors with k-d trees, regression.	R&N (2010), todo
23.11.	Probabilistic computation: basic concepts and methods (Bayes formula).	R&N, todo
30.11.	Reinforcement learning, základné koncepty, methods of agent learning.	R&N (2010), ch.21.3-5.
07.12.	Fuzzy systems, fuzzy logic and reasoning.	Engelbrecht (2007), ch.20-21, Scholarpedia: Zadeh (2007)
07.12.	Robotics: basic concepts and tasks.	todo

References

• Russell S., Norwig P. (2010). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, (3rd ed.). Available in the faculty library.
• Zadeh L. (2007). Fuzzy logic, Scholarpedia, 3(3):1766.

Course grading

• Exercises (30%).
• Final exam (50%).
• Projects (20%)
• Overall grading: A (50-46), B (45-41), C (40-36), D (35-31), E (30-26), Fx (25-0).