Summer Term 2014
Course Description
Problem solving and search is a central topic in Artificial Intelligence. This course presents several techniques to solve in general difficult problems.
The course covers the following topics:
- Basic Concepts
- Uninformed Search
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Structural Decomposition Techniques (Tree/Hypertree Decompositions)
- Local Search, Stochastic Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing
- Tabu Search
- Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms
- Adversial Search and Game Playing
Lecturer: Dr. Sarah Alice Gaggl
Modules: INF-BAS2, MCL-KR, MCL-PI
Status: advanced unit
SWS (lecture/tutorial/practical): 2/1/0
Examination method: to be announced
Prerequisites:
Organization
The lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, 09:20-10:50 (DS 2) and the tutorial will be on Monday, 14:50-16:20 (DS 5) in room INF E005.
Note: the tutorial starts in May.
| Lecture |
Date |
Time |
Slides |
| Introduction |
08.04.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L1.pdf |
| Uninformed Search |
15.04.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L2.pdf |
| Informed Search |
22.04.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L3.pdf |
| Constraint Satisfaction Problems |
29.04.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L4.pdf |
| Tutorial 1 |
05.05.2014 |
DS5 |
PSSAI-T1.pdf |
| Answer-Set Programming |
06.05.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L5.pdf |
| Tutorial 2 |
12.05.2014 |
DS5 |
PSSAI-T2.pdf |
| ASP Modelling, Tree Decomposition |
13.05.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L6.pdf |
| Tutorial 3 |
19.05.2014 |
DS5 |
PSSAI-T3.pdf |
| Structural Decomposition Techniques ctd. |
20.05.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L7.pdf |
| Local Search, Stochastic Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing |
27.05.2014 |
DS2 |
PSSAI_L8.pdf |
| Tutorial 4 |
02.06.2014 |
DS5 |
PSSAI-T4.pdf |
| Tabu Search |
03.06.2014 |
DS2 |
|
| Evolutionary Algorithms |
17.06.2014 |
DS2 |
Intro_EAs.pdf |
| Tutorial 5 |
23.06.2014 |
DS5 |
|
| Evolutionary Algorithms ctd. |
24.06.2014 |
DS2 |
GA_for_TSP.pdf |
| Adversial Search |
01.07.2014 |
DS2 |
|
| Tutorial 6 |
07.07.2014 |
DS5 |
|
References:
- Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" (3. edition ). Pearson Education, 2010.
- Zbigniew Michalewicz and David B. Fogel. "How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics", volume 2. Springer, 2004.
