Introduction–Definition – Future of Artificial Intelligence – Characteristics of Intelligent Agents–Typical Intelligent Agents – Problem Solving Approach to Typical AI problems.
Problem solving Methods – Search Strategies- Uninformed – Informed – Heuristics – Local Search Algorithms and Optimization Problems -Searching with Partial Observations – Constraint Satisfaction Problems – Constraint Propagation – Backtracking Search – Game Playing – Optimal Decisions in Games – Alpha – Beta Pruning – Stochastic Games
First Order Predicate Logic – Prolog Programming – Unification – Forward Chaining-Backward Chaining – Resolution – Knowledge Representation – Ontological Engineering-Categories and Objects – Events – Mental Events and Mental Objects – Reasoning Systems for Categories -Reasoning with Default Information
Architecture for Intelligent Agents – Agent communication – Negotiation and Bargaining – Argumentation among Agents – Trust and Reputation in Multi-agent systems.
AI applications – Language Models – Information Retrieval- Information Extraction – Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation – Speech Recognition – Robot – Hardware –Perception – Planning – Moving
Reference Book:
1. M. Tim Jones, ―Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach(Computer Science)‖, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.; First Edition, 2008 2. Nils J. Nilsson, ―The Quest for Artificial Intelligence‖, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 3. William F. Clocksin and Christopher S. Mellish,‖ Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard‖, Fifth Edition, Springer, 2003. 4. Gerhard Weiss, ―Multi Agent Systems‖, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2013. 5. David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth, ―Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents‖, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Text Book:
1 S. Russell and P. Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach‖, Prentice Hall, Third Edition, 2009. 2 I. Bratko, ―Prolog: Programming for Artificial Intelligence‖, Fourth edition, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc., 2011.