ITCS 6150/8150             Intelligent Systems                 Fall 2022



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 24 Introduction
Agents
Uniformed Searches
Informed Searches
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 2 August 31 Dijkstra Algorithm
Informed Searches
Chapter 4
Games
Sudoku
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 3 Sept 7 Advesarial Search Chapter 6
Sample Problems
PowerPoint
PDF
Week 4 Sept 14 Logical Agents
Puzzles, Exercises
Propositional Logic
Decision Trees
Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PDF
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 5 Sept 21 RS System
Example RS Strategy
Exercises Booklet

Week 6 Sept 28 Project Assignment IS Project
Week 7 Oct 5 Propositional Logic
First-Order Logic
Chapter 7 PowerPoint
PDF
Week 8 Oct 12 Review
Solutions

RS Example
PDF
PDF
PDF
PDF
Week 9 Oct 19 Midterm Exam (on Canvas) PDF
Week 10 Oct 26 First-Order Logic
Chapter 8
Exercises, Solutions
Problem 10
Query Semantics

PowerPoint
PDF, PDF
PDF
Word
Week 11 Nov 2 First-Order Logic Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Exercises
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PDF
Week 12 Nov 9 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 13
Week 14
Nov 16
Nov 30
Recommender Systems (RS)
Content-Based RS
Knowledge Based RS
RS in Healthcare
RS in Business
RS in Art
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Week 15 Dec 7 Review Link
Dec 9 PROJECT DUE DATE
Maximum 4 people on the team
Project Rubric
3-Dimensional Tic-tac-toe
Final Dec 14 Final Exam Bioinf 217 11:00am-1:30pm
Association Rules Video 1, Video 2 Link


ADDITIONAL Presentations/Software:

  • Orange
  • 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 19 (Wednesday), 11:30-2:15pm
    • Project (Canvas) - deadline to submit: December 5
    • Final (Bioinf 217): December 14 (Wednesday), 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: Bioinformatics Bldg, Room 217
                Time: Wednesday, 11:30am-2:15pm


    Instructor:       Zbigniew W. Ras

    Office: Woodward 430C
    e-mail: ras@uncc.edu Office Hours:
    When: Wednesday: 4:00-6:00pm
    Where: On ZOOM at https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/98744919781

    TA:       Nikhita Somanchi

    Office: Woodward 402 (KDD Lab)
    Telephone: 704-687-8546
    e-mail: nsomanch@uncc.edu
    Office Hours:
    Thursday 10:00-12:00, On Zoom: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/94249615580
    Friday 12:30-14:30 (in Woodward 402)

    TA:       Arush Mishra

    Office: Woodward 402 (KDD Lab)
    Telephone: 704-687-8546
    e-mail: amishr18@uncc.edu
    Office Hours:
    Monday 3:00pm -5:00pm (in Woodward 402)
    Friday 3:00pm -5:00pm, On Zoom: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/95884172735?pwd=MzY3a2FkSUtMQndUVHJZN2dKdnlPUT09