Introduction to Intelligent
Systems
CIS*3700 (Winter 2007)
Instructor: Fei Song (Thornbrough 1388, ext. 58067)
Email: fsong@cis.uoguelph.ca
Office
Hours: Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:30 pm (Instructor’s office).
Teaching Assistants: Robert Collier and
Email: ta3700@cis.uoguelph.ca
Office Hours and Location: Monday
and Friday, 11:30 – 12:30 (Thornbrough 1308)
Overview
This
course covers the foundamental concepts and techniques in Artificial Intelligence,
including agents and environments, search, knowledge representation, reasoning,
and learning. It also provides in-depth
study for some specific and widely applicable methods for game search, expert
systems, decision tree learning, and statistical natural language
processing. All the programming
exercises are to be done in an object-oriented programming language (either Java
or C++).
Evaluation
Assignments (4 x 10%) 40%
Midterm 20%
Final Exam 40%
Note (1) The assignments include both
paper-and-pencil questions and programming
exercises.
Note (2) Late submissions for assignments are acceptable, but there will be a deduction of
marks by 10%
for one day late, 25% for two days late, and 50% for three days late.
After three days, no marks
will be given for late submissions.
Note (3)
All lecture notes and other related
materials will be posted at the
course website
on WebCT.
Textbook
Stuart Russell and Peter
Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Second Edition. Prentice-Hall, 2003.
Academic Misconduct Discussions with
each other on the assignments are encouraged, but are limited to verbal
communications on concepts and approaches.