Introduction AI“ AI problems - Problem Characteristics -Agents - Structure of an agent - Problem formulation - uninformed search strategies - heuristics - informed search strategies -“ constraint satisfaction
Logical agents - propositional logic - inferences -first-order logic - inferences in first order logic - propositional Vs. first order inference -unification &lifts - forward chaining - backward chaining -resolution.
Planning with state-space search - partial-order planning - planning graphs - planning and acting in the real world.
Uncertainty - review of probability - probabilistic Reasoning - Semantic networks - Bayesian networks - inferences in Bayesian networks -Temporal models - Hidden Markov models
Learning from observation - Inductive learning - Decision trees - Explanation based learning - Statistical Learning methods -Reinforcement Learning- Neural net learning & Genetic learning. Case Study: Security in AI - Home Security, Crime prevention Camera, Military Reconnaissance, Offshore oil & Gas threat detection.
Reference Book:
1 G. Luger, “Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for complex problem solvingâ€, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2002. 2 Elaine Rich , Kevin Knight, “Artificial Intelligenceâ€, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2009. 3 Anindita Das, “Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing for Beginnersâ€, First Edition, Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd, 2013. 4 Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approachâ€, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2009.
Text Book:
1 S. Russel and P. Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approachâ€, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2013. 2 David Poole, Alan Mackworth, Randy Goebel, “Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approachâ€, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.