| CODE | CSA2171 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Artificial Intelligence | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Intelligent Computer Systems | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit aims to familiarize students with the nature of AI problems and related practical solution techniques. The topics covered include (but are not limited to): • History of AI; • Agent Technologies & Mark-up languages; • Problem solving; • Ontologies & the Semantic Web; • Game Playing; • Knowledge Representation; • Expert Systems; • Search and Optimization problems; • Natural Language Processing; • Artificial Neural Networks; • Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms; • Montecarlo Techniques; • Artificial Life and Swarm Intelligence; • Ethical Issues of AI. Textbooks: • Russell and P Norvig. Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach. Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN 0-13-103805-2. • Yoav Shoham. Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Prolog. Morgan Kaufmann ISBN 1-55860-167-8. • Bratko, Prolog Programming for AI, 1994, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-41606-9. • Website: https://vle.um.edu.mt • Baeza-Yates, Ricardo. Ribeiro-Neto, Berthier. 1999. Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley, New York. • Brin, Sergey. Page, Lawrence. 1998. “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”. Stanford University, California. • David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning. • Michael Negnevitsky, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71159-1. • Course notes and handouts will also be provided by the Study-Unit Coordinator for part II. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Alexiei Dingli |
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