CS 4331

Problem Solving and Learning

Winter 1999

Instructor: Ashok K. Goel
Email: goel@cc.gatech.edu
Office: CRB 394, 894-4994
Office hours: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri -- 12:15 - 1:15pm

Teaching Assistant: Patrawadee Prasangsit
Email: pp@cc.gatech.edu
Office: CRB 310, 894-6064
Office hours: Tue & Thu -- 3 - 4:30pm
Office hours location: The CCB picnic area. If you don't see me, please look in the cluster. (Who's Pat anyway?)

Newsgroup: git.cc.class.4331
Class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3pm

Textbooks

• Artificial Intelligence, P. Winston, Addison-Wesley, Third Edition, 1992.
• Artificial Intelligence, E. Rich and K. Knight, McGraw-Hill, Second Edition, 1991.
• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, S. Russell and P. Norvig, Prentice-Hall, 1995.

• AI Programming, E. Charniak, C. Riesbeck, D. McDermott, and J. Meehan, Lawrence Erlbaum, Second Edition, 1987.
• Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, P. Norvig, Morgan Kauffman, 1992.

Handouts

• 01/07 Syllabus (.ps, .txt)

Projects

• 01/12 Project 1: Design and Behaviors of Simple Intelligent Agents in a Complex Environment (due 01/26)
• 01/26 Project 2: Design and Behaviors of Simple Intelligent Agents in a Complex Environment II: Adding Deliberative Decision Making to Reactive Control (due 02/09)
• 02/09 Project 3: Design and Behaviors of Simple Intelligent Agents in a Complex Environment III: Learning from Experience (due 02/23)
• 03/02 Project 4: Design and Behaviors of Simple Intelligent Agents in a Complex Environment IV (due 03/11)

Lecture Notes

• 01/12 Introduction to Problem Solving and Learning
• 01/19 Introduction to Case-Based Reasoning
• 01/20 Memory, Retrieval and Storage
• 02/02 Analogical Reasoning
• 02/10 Case-Based Reasoning: Adaptation and Evaluation
• 02/12 Abstractional Analogy

Maintained by Patrawadee Prasangsit, pp@cc.gatech.edu