ITCS 6150/8150             Intelligent Systems                 Fall 2021



Textbooks (suggested):
Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach
Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Prentice Hall Series in AI
and
Logics for Computer Science
Anita Wasilewska
Springer


Course Syllabus for ITCS 6150/8150

Agents
Uniformed Searches
Informed Searches
A* Algorithm
Adversarial Searches
Logical Agents
Puzzles
Propositional Logic
First-Order Logic
Gentzen Systems (axioms, inference rules)
Godel's Completeness Theorem
Resolution
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Systems
Recommender Systems (Collaborative Filtering, Content Based)
Recommender Systems (Group, Knowledge Based, Hybrid)
Recommender Systems in Business
Recommender Systems in Healthcare & Art

LINK TO CLASS GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER

What subjects and when will be covered:




Date Topic Reading Slides
Week 1 August 26 Introduction
Agents
Uniformed Searches
Informed Searches
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 2 Sept 2 Dijkstra Algorithm
Informed Searches
Chapter 4
Games
Sudoku
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 3 Sept 9 Advesarial Search Chapter 6
Sample Problems
PowerPoint
PDF
Week 4 Sept 16 Logical Agents
Puzzles, Exercises
Propositional Logic
Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PDF
PowerPoint
Week 5 Sept 30 Project RS System
Example RS Strategy
Exercises Booklet

Week 6 Oct 7 Propositional Logic
First-Order Logic
Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PDF
Week 7 Oct 14 Review
Solutions
PDF
PDF
PDF
Week 8 Oct 21 Midterm Exam PDF
Week 9 Oct 28 First-Order Logic
Chapter 8
Exercises, Solutions
Query Semantics

PowerPoint
PDF, PDF
Word
Week 10 Nov 4 First-Order Logic Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Exercises
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PDF
Week 11 Nov 11 First-Order Logic
First Order Logic
Classification Trees(CT)
Classification Rules (RSES)
CT Example
Chapter 9
Resolution Strategies
Rules Discovery
Rules Discovery
PowerPoint
Word
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
RTF
Week 12 Nov 18 Recommender Systems (RS)
Content-Based RS
Knowledge Based RS
RS in Healthcare
RS in Business
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 13 Dec 2 Review Link
Dec 10 PROJECT DUE DATE
Maximum 4 people on the team
Project Rubric
RS System
Final Dec 16 Final: Exam questions will be sent by email at 10:55am & also posted on Canvas Internet: 11:00am - 1:30pm
Association Rules Video 1, Video 2 Link


ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Exercise: Mini-Max 9 pennies (PPT format)
  • NPS Project (PPT Format)
  • SAS Project (PPT Format)
  • Intelligent Agents or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • More about Intelligent Agents (PPT format)
  • Solving Problems by Searching or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Informed Search Algorithms or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Constraint Satisfaction Problems or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Game Playing or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Agents and Propositional Logic or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Logic Agents (PPT format)
  • First Order Logic (FOL) or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Inference in FOL or alternate Presentation (PPT format)
  • Learning(PPT format)
  • Knowledge Discovery (PPT format)
  • Problem 3 (Solution)


    • Midterm (Canvas): October 21 (Thursday)
    • Project (Canvas) - deadline to submit: December 10
    • Final (Canvas): December 16 (Thursday), 11:00am-1:30pm


    Grades

    • Midterm - 30 points, Final - 40 points, Project (maximum 4 people on the team) - 30 points,
    • Grade A from 90 to 100 points, Grade B from 80 to 89 points, Grade C from 65 to 79 points.

  • Sample Problems


    Class meetings:

                Location: https://uncc.zoom.us/j/96019789084
                Time: Thursday, 1:00-3:45pm


    Instructor:       Zbigniew W. Ras

    Office: Woodward 430C
    e-mail: ras@uncc.edu Office Hours on ZOOM:
    When: Thursday: 11:30am-12:45pm
    Where: https://uncc.zoom.us/j/91514612446

    TA:       Yuehua Duan

    Office: Woodward 402 (KDD Lab)
    Telephone: 704-687-8546
    e-mail: yduan2@uncc.edu
    Office Hours on ZOOM:
    When: Monday, Friday: 9:00-10:30am
    Where: https://uncc.zoom.us/j/96429499423