AI Syllabus
AI Syllabus
Course Objective:
To understand the notions of state space representation, exhaustive search, heuristic search along
with the time and space complexities
To learn different knowledge representation techniques
To understand the applications of AI namely, Game Playing, Theorem Proving, Expert Systems,
Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Learning Outcome:
Possess the ability to formulate an efficient problem space for a problem expressed in English
Possess the ability to select a search algorithm for a problem and characterize its time and space
complexities.
Possess the skill for representing knowledge using the appropriate technique
Possess the ability to apply AI techniques to solve problems of Game Playing, Expert Systems
and Machine Learning.
Unit – I
Foundations of AI: What is AI, History of AI, Strong and weak AI, The State of the Art.
Intelligent Agents: Agents and Environments, Good Behavior: The Concept of Rationality, The Nature
of Environments, The Structure of Agents.
Unit – II
Solving Problems by Searching: Problem – Solving Agents, Example Problems, Searching for
Solutions, uniformed search Strategies, Informed (Heuristic) Search Strategies, Heuristic Functions.
Unit – III
Knowledge Representation: Ontological Engineering, Categories and Objects, Events, Mental Events
and Mental Objects, Reasoning Systems for Categories, Reasoning with Default Information, The Internet
Shopping World.
Unit – IV
Learning from Examples: Forms of Learning, Supervised Learning, Learning Decision Trees,
Evaluating and Choosing the Best Hypothesis, The Theory of Learning, Regression and Classification
with Learner Models, Nonparametric Models, Support Vector Machines, Ensemble Learning, Practical
Machine Learning.
Unit – V
Learning Probabilistic Models: Statistical Learning, Learning with Complete data, Lear1qning with
Hidden variables: The EM Algorithm.
Text Books :
1. “Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach”, Stuart J. Russell & Peter Norvig – Pearson.
2. “Artificial Intelligence”, Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight & Shivashankar B Nair – McGraw
Hill Education.
Reference Books: