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The document describes an Artificial Intelligence course with the following details: - The course introduces fundamental concepts of AI including intelligent agents, problem solving, knowledge representation, machine learning, and applications. - The course is worth 100 marks divided into theory, lab work, and assignments. Students must score at least 24 marks in theory and 8 marks in lab/assignments to pass. - The course contains 6 units covering topics like intelligent agents, search techniques, knowledge representation systems, machine learning paradigms, and applications of AI like expert systems and natural language processing. Students implement AI concepts in lab work.

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The document describes an Artificial Intelligence course with the following details: - The course introduces fundamental concepts of AI including intelligent agents, problem solving, knowledge representation, machine learning, and applications. - The course is worth 100 marks divided into theory, lab work, and assignments. Students must score at least 24 marks in theory and 8 marks in lab/assignments to pass. - The course contains 6 units covering topics like intelligent agents, search techniques, knowledge representation systems, machine learning paradigms, and applications of AI like expert systems and natural language processing. Students implement AI concepts in lab work.

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Artificial Intelligence

Course Title: Artificial Intelligence


Full Marks: 60 + 20 + 20
Course No: CSC261
Pass Marks: 24 + 8 + 8
Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab
Credit Hrs: 3
Semester: IV
Course Description:
The course introduces the ideas and techniques underlying the principles and design of artificial
intelligent systems. The course covers the basics and applications of AI, including: design of
intelligent agents, problem solving, searching, knowledge representation systems, probabilistic
reasoning, neural networks, machine learning and natural language processing.
Course Objectives:
The main objective of the course is to introduce fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence. The
general objectives are to learn about computer systems that exhibit intelligent behavior, design
intelligent agents, identify AI problems and solve the problems, design knowledge representation
and expert systems, design neural networks for solving problems, identify different machine
learning paradigms and identify their practical applications.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction (3 Hrs.)
1.1. Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Perspectives: acting and thinking humanly, acting and thinking
rationally
1.2. History of AI
1.3. Foundations of AI
1.4. Applications of AI

Unit II: Intelligent Agents (4 Hrs.)


2.1. Introduction of agents, Structure of Intelligent agent, Properties of Intelligent Agents
2.2. Configuration of Agents, PEAS description of Agents
2.3. Types of Agents: Simple Reflexive, Model Based, Goal Based, Utility Based.
2.4. Environment Types: Deterministic, Stochastic, Static, Dynamic, Observable, Semiobservable,
Single Agent, Multi Agent

Unit III: Problem Solving by Searching (9 Hrs.)


3.1. Definition, Problem as a state space search, Problem formulation, Well-defined problems,
3.2. Solving Problems by Searching, Search Strategies, Performance evaluation of search
techniques
3.3. Uninformed Search: Depth First Search, Breadth First Search, Depth Limited Search, Iterative
Deepening Search, Bidirectional Search
3.4. Informed Search: Greedy Best first search, A* search, Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing
3.5. Game playing, Adversarial search techniques, Mini-max Search, Alpha-Beta Pruning.
3.6. Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Unit IV: Knowledge Representation (14 Hrs.)


4.1. Definition and importance of Knowledge, Issues in Knowledge Representation, Knowledge
Representation Systems, Properties of Knowledge Representation Systems.
4.2. Types of Knowledge Representation Systems: Semantic Nets, Frames, Conceptual
Dependencies, Scripts, Rule Based Systems, Propositional Logic, Predicate Logic
4.3. Propositional Logic(PL): Syntax, Semantics, Formal logic-connectives, truth tables, tautology,
validity, well-formed-formula, Inference using Resolution, Backward Chaining and Forward
Chaining
4.4. Predicate Logic: FOPL, Syntax, Semantics, Quantification, Inference with FOPL: By
converting into PL (Existential and universal instantiation), Unification and lifting, Inference
using resolution
4.5. Handling Uncertain Knowledge, Radom Variables, Prior and Posterior Probability, Inference
using Full Joint Distribution, Bayes' Rule and its use, Bayesian Networks, Reasoning in
Belief Networks
4.6. Fuzzy Logic

Unit V: Machine Learning (9 Hrs.)


5.1. Introduction to Machine Learning, Concepts of Learning, Supervised, Unsupervised and
Reinforcement Learning
5.2. Statistical-based Learning: Naive Bayes Model
5.3. Learning by Genetic Algorithm
5.4. Learning with Neural Networks: Introduction, Biological Neural Networks Vs. Artificial
Neural Networks (ANN), Mathematical Model of ANN, Types of ANN: Feed-forward,
Recurrent, Single Layered, Multi-Layered, Application of Artificial Neural Networks,
Learning by Training ANN, Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning, Hebbian Learning,
Perceptron Learning, Back-propagation Learning

Unit VI: Applications of AI (6 Hrs.)


6.1. Expert Systems, Development of Expert Systems
6.2. Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language
Generation, Steps of Natural Language Processing
6.3. Machine Vision Concepts
6.4. Robotics

Laboratory Works:
The laboratory work consists of design and implementation of intelligent agents and expert systems,
searching techniques, knowledge representation systems and machine learning techniques. Students
are also advised to implement Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms for solving practical problems
of AI. Students are advised to use LISP, PROLOG, or any other high level language.

Text Books:
1. Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Pearson

Reference Books:
1. E. Rich, K. Knight, Shivashankar B. Nair, Artificial Intelligence, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. George F. Luger, Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem
Solving, Benjamin/Cummings Publication
3. D. W. Patterson, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Prentice Hall.
4. P. H. Winston, Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley.

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