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CS 6660
Intelligent Agents

Fall 2001
Ashok Goel

Class Schedule

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Below is a preliminary day-by-day schedule for the classes. It also shows
the reading assignments from the text by Russell and Norvig.

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Date            Topics                          Assignments

Aug 20

Aug 22          Introduction to                 Chapter 1
                the course

                Introduction to
                Intelligent Systems

                Introduction to
                Intelligent Agents

Aug 27          Design of                       Chapter 2
                Intelligent Agents:
                tasks, environment,
                computational complexity,
                bounded rationality

                Agent Architectures:
                percept-based,
                state-based,
                goal-based, etc.

                Reactive Agents

Aug 29          Robotics                Chapter 25:
                                        Sections 1 and 4
                Action and Perception
                Knowledge Representation:
                Productions
                Action Representation:
                threshold logic units
                Subsumption Architecture
                Deliberation and Action

Sep 3           Holiday

Sep 5           Neural Networks                 Chapter 19
                                                Sections 1 through 6
                Learning in NNs:
                Gradient Descent,
                Generalized Delta,
                Backpropagation

Sep 10          Machine Evolution:              Chapter 20
                Genetic Algorithms,             Sections 1&8
                Genetic Programming

                Project I is assigned

Sep 12          State-Based Agents:             Chapter ?
                Feature Vectors

                Analogical Representations
                Blackboard Systems

Sep 17          Perception                      Chapter 24
                                                Sections 1 through 5
                Vision:
                Image Processing,
                Constraint Propagation,
                Object Recognition

                Knowledge Representation:
                Frames

Sep 19          Pattern Analysis                        Chapter 24
                                                Sections 6 through 8
                Generalized Models and
                Model-Based Vision
                Analogical Representations:
                Generalized Cylinders

Sep 24          Agent Communication:            Chapter 22
                Natural Language Understanding  Sections 1-2

Sep 26          Lexical and Syntactic Analyses  Chapter 22
                                                Sections 3-5
                Phrase Structure Grammars
                and Parsing

                Case Structure Grammars
                and Parsing

Oct 1           Semantic and Pragmatic Analyses  Chapter ??

                Knowledge Representation and :
                Conceptual Primitives,
                Schemas and Scripts

                Project I is due

Oct 3           Memory                          Chapter 10
                                                Section 6
                Knowledge Organization:
                Semantic Networks
                Spreading Activation

                Project II is assigned

Oct 8           Search                          Chapters 3 and 4

                Heuristics
                Heuristic Search

                Optimal Search
                A*

Oct 10          Goal-Directed Problem Solving   Chapter 11
                Planning                        Sections 1-4

Oct 15          Holiday

Oct 17          Symbolic Logic                  Chapter 6
                Deduction                       Sections 1-4
                                                Chapter 7
                                                Sections 1-2

                Mid-Term Examination is Assigned

Oct 22          Non-Linear Problems             Chapter 11
                Partial Order Planning          Sections 5-7

Oct 24          Cognitive Architecures

                Production Systems              ???
                Rule-Based Reasoning
                Learning by Chunking

                Mid-Term Examination is Due

Oct 29          Rule-Based Expert Systems       ???
                Mid-Term Examination is Due

Oct 31          Case-Based Reasoning

                Memory Organization
                Discrimination Networks

                Project II is due

Nov 5           Case-Based Expert Systems
                Explanation
                Knowledge Acquisition

                Project III is assigned

Nov 7           Knowledge Representation

                Space and Time
                Processes and Function

                Qualitative Reasoning

Nov 12          Uncertainty                     Chapter 14
                Bayes Networks

                Probabilistic Reasoning         Chapter 15 -
                Belief Networks                 Sections 1&2

Nov 14          Decision Making                 Chapter 16
                Utility Theory                  Sections 1-3
                Decision Networks               Section 5

                Markov Models                   Chapter 17
                                                Section 1
Nov 19          Inductive Learning              Chapter
                Decision Trees                  Sections 1-3

Nov 21          Reinforcement Learning

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Ashok Goel

August 20, 2001

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