After successful completion of the course, students are able to identify and explain fundamental concepts which are relevant for the design and realisation of intelligent systems as well as to correctly argue about theoretical aspects of it.
Attention:
- Email address for questions: eki-2020s AT kr.tuwien.ac.at
- Course start: Tue Mar 3 2019.
- Mandatory TISS course registration until Mar 12, 2019. Belated registration will be ignored.
- Mandatory TUWEL entry test from Fri Mar 12 and Sun Mar 15 (test available 00:00-23:55). Everybody who takes the entry test will receive a certificate (i.e., it is not possible to unregister after the entry test). If you stop participating after taking the entry test, you will receive a negative certificate.
The following subjects will be discussed:
- historical and philosophical aspects of AI
- search
- constraint satisfaction problems
- planning
- decision theory
Lecturers
- Lecture part: Thomas Eiter and Hans Tompits
- Exercise part: Thomas Eiter, Hans Tompits, and Antonius Weinzierl
Course of Action and Topics of the Lecture Part
- Tue Mar 03: Organisation, What is AI? (Eiter)
- Thu Mar 12: Registration deadline (TISS)
- Tue Mar 10: Intelligent agents, Problem solving and search (Eiter)
- Tue Mar 17: Informed search algorithms, Local search (Eiter)
- Tue Mar 24: Learning from observations (Eiter)
- Tue Mar 31: Learning from observations, ctd, Neural networks (Eiter)
- Tue Apr 7: Easter break
- Tue Apr 14: Easter break
- Tue Apr 21: No lecture
- Tue Apr 28: Constraint satisfaction problems (Tompits)
- Tue May 5: Planning I (Tompits)
- Tue May 12: Planning II (Tompits)
- Tue May 19: Decision theory I (Tompits)
- Tue May 26: Decision theory II (Tompits)
- Tue Jun 2: Pentecost break
- Tue Jun 9: Philosophical foundations of AI (Tompits)
- Sun Jun 7, 23:55: Checkmark deadline for exercises (TUWEL)
- Fri Jun 12: 23:55: Registration deadline for solutions discussions (TUWEL)
- Mon Jun 15-Fri Jun 19: Exercise solution discussions
- Tue Jun 23, 16:00-18:00: Main exam in Informatik HS
Note: Lectures start c.t. (i.e., at 14:15)!
Exercise Part
Mandatory registration until Mar 12.
Entry test
The mandatory TUWEL entry test will be available only from Fri Mar 12 to Sun Mar 15 (00:00-23:55, three submissions possible, last submission counts). Everybody who takes the entry test will receive a certificate (i.e., it is not possible to unregister after the entry test). If you stop participating after taking the entry test, you will receive a negative certificate.
Checkmark lists and solution discussion
- Mode: Checkmark lists in TUWEL and a solution discussion of 1 hour in groups of 3 students (students must be able to present and explain their solutions and background); details and dates are announced via TUWEL
- Evaluation: exercise discussions are evaluated with 0-15 points; this is weighted with the percentage of checked examples and rounded to the next integer.
3 exercise sheets
- Sheet 1: Search
- Sheet 2: Learning and Neural Networks
- Sheet 3: CSP, Planning, and Making Simple Decisions
Exercise part
- The entry test is totalling 5 pts.
- The 3 exercise sheets with the according discusion are totalling 15 pts.
- Total pts: 20
Lecture part
- Written closed book exam
- Total pts: 80
Total sum of points for lecture and exercise part: 100
Zero tolerance for unfair practice (e.g., plagiarism, copied solutions, ...). All involved persons will be fined with 0 pts. (You may get a negative certificate).
Grading
Requirements for a positive certificate:
- at least 3 points for the entry test; and
- at least 40 points for the written final exam; and
- at least 51 points in total.
The course will be graded as follows:
- < 51 pts: N5 (Nicht Genügend)
- >= 51 pts: G4 (Genügend)
- >= 63 pts: B3 (Befriedigend)
- >= 75 pts: U2 (Gut)
- >= 88 pts: S1 (Sehr Gut)
Exercise sheets and solution discussions:
- Due to the above criteria, points from exercise sheets are not strictly necessary for a positive grade. However, note that without exercise points it is harder the reach the required overall number of points. Moreover, working out the exercise sheets is also recommended as a preparation for the exam. Belated submission of exercises (e.g. after you have written a positive exam but did not reach the required overall number of points) is not possible.
- NO WASTE OF SLOTS: While participation in the exercise part is optional, registrations for solution discussions are still binding. That is, it is not mandatory to register, but IF you decide to register for a solution discussion, THEN it is mandatory to show up (unless you can prove unpredictable and unavoidable obstacles such as illness). No-show after a registration without plausible excuse has consequences (see section on "Exams and Certificates").
Exams and Certificates:
- There are no mandatory exams in front of committees. Instead, students have five regular attempts (i.e., you can get up to 5 certificates). However, for technical reasons (and to warn students) TISS does not allow students to register themselves for for fourth or fifth attempt to take the exam. Please send us a short message to register.
- We provide 4 exam dates, you can participate in arbitrary many (unless you already collected 5 certificates in total). A certificate is issued for every attempt except for first negative one.
(Legal background: In a VU we have to provide 2 chances to pass the exam and issue one certificate for these two chances. The 3rd and 4th attempt are a gesture of goodwill and count as fast-track repetition of the whole course.)
- Those who waste solution discussion slots (registration and no-show without acceptable excuse) are granted only the legal minimum of 2 attempts (i.e., there is no goodwill in these cases); after the second failure they have to repeat the whole course next year.
Exam reviewing:
There are no special dates for reviewing graded exams. Reviewing is possible whenever the secretariat is open (see website).
