COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CME 4418 INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ELECTIVE 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Computer Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ÖZLEM AKTAŞ

Offered to

Computer Engineering

Course Objective

The main objectives of this course are to discuss, teach and apply the methods, languages, and search paradigms in AI.; increase the abilities of analytical and theoretical thinking of students, so make them able to solve the problems efficiently.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn methods and applications of artificial inteligence in daily life.
2   Learn and implement the necessary search paradigms for the solutions of mathematical problems, such as constrait satisfaction problems, when needed.
3   Use appropriate search paradigm for problem solving and produce solutions for the given problems.
4   Understand learning paradigms.
5   Apply learning paradigms in daily life and solve the problems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: History and Applications
2 Knowledge Representation with AI Applications
3 Problem Solving: Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP), Backtracking Search for CSP
4 Search Strategies: State Space Search (Depth First, Breath First), Heuristic Search
5 Hill Climbing, Best First Search, A* Method
6 Game Trees and Adversary Search,Alpha Beta Pruning, Min Max Approach
7 Midterm Exam I
8 AI Languages and Knowledge Database Representation
9 Natural Language Processing: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, AI and Robotics
10 Learning Paradigms: Learning from Observations, Inductive Learning
11 Learning Paradigms:Decision Trees
12 Learning Paradigms: Learning from Examples, Learning with Hidden Variables, Instance Based Learning
13 Neural Networks, Intelligent Agents
14 Expert Systems
15 Midterm Exam II

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book: Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach,Stuart Russell,Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall,0131038052,New Jersey,1995
Supplementary Book: Artificial Intelligence, George Luger, Addison Wesley, 0201648660, England, 2002

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, Problem Solving, Homework, Laboratory

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + MTE * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + MTE * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm exams are 45% , quiz is 5%, final exam is 50% of the course grade.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozlem@cs.deu.edu.tr, aktas.ozlem@deu.edu.tr, 02323017426

Office Hours

Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00, Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparing assignments 2 6 12
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparation for quiz etc. 4 6 24
Final 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 4 2 8
Project Assignment 2 6 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1453
LO.2543
LO.34534
LO.43
LO.53