CPSC 502 - Fall 2006
Schedule
This schedule is subject to change. I will try to keep the slides
up-to-date.
- Sept 11 - AI and
Agents, Dimensions,
Applications,
Control.
- Sept 13 - Hierarchical
Control, Search,
Uniformed
Search, Heuristic
Search, Refinements,
play with the CISpace
Search Applet.
- Sept 18 - Search (cont).
- Sept 20 - CSPs
and Consistency-based Methods, and see the CISpace
CSP Applet.
- Sept 25 - Variable
Elimination, Stochastic
Local Search; see the CIspace
SLS Applet.
- Sept 27 - Stochastic Local Search, Population-based methods
- Oct 2 - Propositions and Inference: Semantics,
bottom-up
proof, top-down
proof, negation
as failure.
- Oct 4 - Objects
and Relations, Semantics,
Logical
Variables, first-order
inference.
- Oct 9 - Thanksgiving (no class)
- Oct 11 - semantic
networks, ontologies,
knowledge
representation issues.
- Oct 16 - Assumptions, Probability,
belief
networks, independence.
- Oct 18 - exact
inference, approximate
inference, probability
and time, localization
applet, we saw one of Sebastian Thrun's Monte Carlo Localization
videos.
- Oct 23 - Planning: representations,
forward
planning, regression.
planning
as a CSP. CIspace
representation.
- Oct 25 - utility,
decision
networks,.
- Oct 30 - decision-theoretic
planning, value
iteration applet
- Nov 1 - reinforcement
learning, Q-learning
applet, SARSA-lambda
applet, Multi-Agent
Systems
- Nov 6 - casuality, CILog
addition example,
- Nov 9 - Review
- Nov 13 - Remembrance Day (no class)
- Nov 15 - Midterm
- Nov 20 - Student Presentations:
- Rohrbach & Schmidt: intelligent user interfaces
- Ren & Kashani: mobile robot localization and mapping
- Nov 22 - Student Presentations:
- McAusland: structured MDPs
- Fazli: coaching in soccer
- Jane Zhang: planning as CSP
- Nov 27 - Student Presentations:
- Jiemin Zhang, Xu, Tsai, & Hao: CSPs
- Nov 29 - Student Presentations
- Viswanathan, Ulrich, & Coros: POMDPs
- Jerry Zhang: particle filtering
- Dec 6 (12:30-2:30) - Student Presentations
- KhudaBukhsh: clustering algorithms for large datasets
- Deckert: Ant Colony Optimization
- Radu: evolving communication
- Naseer: subsumption architecture
- Ye: Reinforcement Learning
- Petter Häggholm: genetic algorithms in compilers
Last updated DavidPoole 2006-11-09