TOPICS (Tentative!) & OBJECTIVES (CSE 516)                                            

Date       Topics                                                                            Assignments

Thu 01/04 Computational Intelligence & Knowledge

Tue 01/09 A Representation & Reasoning System & Using Definite Knowledge (*)

Thu 01/11 A Representation & Reasoning System & Using Definite Knowledge (*)

Tue 01/16 Searching

Thu 01/18 Searching

Tue 01/23 Searching

Thu 01/25 Representing Knowledge

Tue 01/30 Knowledge Engineering                                                            

Thu 02/01 Knowledge Engineering                                                         

Tue 02/06 Beyond Definite Knowledge                                                          

Thu 02/08 Beyond Definite Knowledge                                                   

Tue 02/13 Actions & Planning                                                   

Thu 02/15 Actions & Planning                                                                      Programming Task Assigned

Tue 02/20 Assumption-based Reasoning                         

Thu 02/22 Using Uncertain knowledge                                                      Homework Assigned

Tue 02/27 No class Winter Recess

Thu 03/01 No class Winter Recess    

Tue 03/06 Class Exercises                                                     

Thu 03/08 Using Uncertain knowledge                                                       Homework Due                  

Tue 03/13 Using Uncertain knowledge                                                   

Thu 03/15 Learning (or Machine Learning paradigms)                       WebCT quiz  posted

                                                                                                                (last day for quiz submission: 03/25!)

Tue 03/20 Learning

Thu 03/22 Programming presentations

Tue 03/27 Programming presentations

Thu 03/29 Learning                                                                                        Written Report due

Tue 04/03 Building Situated Robots                                                

Thu 04/05 Oral Presentations                                                                               

Tue 04/10 Oral Presentations

Thu 04/12 Building Situated Robots

(*) Chapter 2 & 3 are presented together as they form a coherent whole. They are separate in the book to keep formalisms & the methodology separate.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the semester, a student attending this course should:

• Define the concept of computational intelligence and the role of agent in different application domains.
• Embed intelligence in the computer. In other words, the student should be familiar with the knowledge representation and reasoning system in order to communicate with the computer.
• Cast the problem at hand as a graph searching. Solutions to a problem should be viewed as a set path extracted from a graph.
• Represent knowledge using different paradigms.
• Understand the interaction of actions, planning with time and distinguish between a “reactive agent” and “temporal agent”.
• Program a computer in order to take actions in an uncertain environment.
• Build an algorithm that makes computer “learn”.
• Illustrate the design of situated robots (agents, robotics systems and robot controllers)

This set of objectives given by the instructor is not necessarily reached by the students. Assessment should be provided to measure the distance between the outcomes and these objectives.