Instructor: Prof. Deepak Khemani, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
This course provides an introduction to artificial intelligence. Topics include Introduction: Overview and Historical Perspective, Turing test, Physical Symbol Systems and the scope of Symbolic AI, Agents; State Space Search: Depth First Search, Breadth-First Search, DFID; Heuristic Search: Best First Search, Hill Climbing, Beam Search, Tabu Search; Randomized Search: Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization; Finding Optimal Paths: Branch and Bound, A*, IDA*, Divide and Conquer approaches, Beam Stack Search; Problem Decomposition: Goal Trees, AO*, Rule-Based Systems, Rete Net; Game Playing: Minimax Algorithm, Alpha-Beta Algorithm, SSS*; Planning and Constraint Satisfaction: Domains, Forward and Backward Search, Goal Stack Planning, Plan Space Planning, Graphplan, Constraint Propagation; Logic and Inferences: Propositional Logic, First Order Logic, Soundness and Completeness, Forward and Backward chaining.