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CS 4611 and CS 7611
AI Problem Solving
Spring 2005

Preliminary Schedule

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Date		Topic				Readings

Jan. 10		Introduction to
                the course

Jan. 12		Semantic Nets 			Winston Ch. 2

Jan. 14		Frames 				Winston Ch. 9

Jan. 19		Commonsense			Winston Ch. 10
 		Reasoning

Jan. 21		Truth Maintenance 		Winston Ch. 14

Jan. 24		Learning by 			Winston	Ch. 17
		Explaining Differences

Jan. 26		Learning by 			Winston	Ch. 16
		Analyzing Differences

Jan. 28		Learning by			Winston	Ch. 20
		Managing Models

Jan. 31		Learning by			Winston Ch. 19
		Recording Cases

Feb. 2		Learning by 			Winston Ch. 19
		Recoding Cases
                kd nearest neighbor

Feb. 4		Diagrammatic Reasoning 		Winston Ch. 12
                Constraints and Labeling

Feb. 7		The LetterSpirit Program	Hofstadter and McGraw

Feb. 9		The LetterSpirit Program	Hofstadter and McGraw

Feb. 11		Case-Based Reasoning 		Kolodner
		Memory and Retrieval

Feb. 14		Case-Based Reasoning 		Kolodner
		Representation and Adaptation
		Project 1 is assigned

Feb. 16		Analogical Reasoning		Falkenhanier, Forbus
		Structure Mapping		and Gentner

Feb. 18		Analogical Reasoning
		Discussion of Project 1

Feb. 21		Marr's Theory of
		Computer Vision

Feb. 23		Retrieving Diagrams		Yaner and Goel
		Matching Semantic Networks

Feb. 25		What is KBAI anyway?

Feb. 28		Diagram Understanding  		Ferguson and Forbus

Mar. 2		Diagram Understanding

Mar. 4		Model-Based Agents: 		Williams et al
		A New Paradigm for KBAI

Mar. 7		Project 1 is due
		Project 2 is assigned
		Discussion of Project 1

Mar. 9		Discussion of Project 2

Mar. 11		Mid-Term Examination

Mar. 14		Diagnosis			Stefik

Mar. 16		Classification

Mar. 18		Review of Mid-Term Exam

Mar. 28		Model-Based Diagnosis		Stefik

Mar. 30		General Diagnostic Engine

Apr. 1		Model-Based Software Agents

		Project II is due

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Ashok Goel
Mar 31, 2005

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