Welcome to Informatics 2D - Reasoning and Agents
Hello, we are pleased to welcome you to Informatics 2D - Reasoning and Agents.
This is a second year undergraduate course, which introduces you to some basic concepts and techniques in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
We will be delivering the course via lectures (in person), weekly tutorials in small groups (in person), chat forums (piazza) and lab sessions with demonstrators (who will help you resolve problems with coursework).
More details about the course topics and how you will study them is given in Course Information. The course material for each week (including lecture slides, videos, required reading and quizzes) will appear in Course Materials. The textbook we use for required reading is detailed under Library Resources.
There are three lecturers to this course: Nadin Kokciyan and Dave Robertson (weeks 1 to 5) and Alex Lascarides (weeks 6 to 10).
Nadin Kokciyan is a lecturer in AI at the School of Informatics, whose research is in: Multiagent Systems; Agreement Technologies (Argumentation and Negotiation); Privacy in Social Software; AI Ethics and Explainable AI.
David Robertson is a professor in AI at the School of Informatics, whose research is in formal methods for coordination and knowledge sharing in distributed, open systems, using ubiquitous internet and mobile infrastructures.
Alex Lascarides is a professor at the School of Informatics, whose research is in natural language processing, learning strategies in complex games, interactive task learning, and learning to adapt to unforeseen possibilities.
We very much look forward to teaching you all.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Use task constraints to make search efficient.
- Perform Inference with First Order Logic and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of this and other logic representations (eg Propositional).
- Use PDDL to plan and execute actions using either Propositional or First Order Logic representations.
- Create and reason with a representation of a Bayesian agent for handling a non-deterministic planning problem.
- Constructively engage in both self-study and peer-learning.
The Lecturers: their story
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License
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