COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course serves as an introduction to the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) including a treatment of intelligent agents, search techniques, logical agents, knowledge representation and reasoning formalisms, learning paradigms and some of machine learning techniques like neural networks, decision trees etc
On completion of this module, students should be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental ideas of problem solving in AI
Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental ideas of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of a number of different approaches to machine learning
Demonstrate the ability to apply AI and Computational Intelligence techniques to a variety of research and application projects