Problem Solving and Search in Artificial Intelligence

From International Center for Computational Logic

Problem Solving and Search in Artificial Intelligence

Course with SWS 2/1/1 (lecture/exercise/practical) in SS 2016

Lecturer

SWS

  • 2/1/1

Modules

Examination method

  • Oral exam



Problem solving and search is a central topic in Artificial Intelligence. This course presents several techniques to solve in general difficult problems.

The course covers the following topics:

  • Basic Concepts
  • Uninformed vs Informed Search
  • Local Search, Stochastic Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing
  • Tabu Search
  • Answer Set Programming
  • Constraint Satisfaction
  • Structural Decomposition Techniques (Tree/Hypertree Decompositions)
  • Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms

Learning Outcomes

  • The students should identify why typical AI problems are difficult to solve
  • The students will analyze different algorithms and methods for AI problems and identify when their application is appropriate
  • The connections between the (graph) structure and the complexity of a problem should become clear, as well as which methods can be used to tackle the problem
  • In the practical part, the students will analyze a given problem and develop a solution for it.

Prerequisites

Basice knowledge of theoretical computer science and Logic.

Organisation

The goals can be acquierd by studying the lecture material, solving the exercises of the tutorials and developing an implementation for a practical problem.

The lecture is scheduled for Friday DS4 13:00-14:30 in room APB E005 and the tutorial will be held every second week on Friday DS5 14:50-16:20 in room APB E005 (see the exact schedule). The practical work should be performed in groups of two students throughout the semester with regular updates on the progress.
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  • Zbigniew Michalewicz and David B. Fogel. "How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics", volume 2. Springer, 2004.
  • Martin Gebser, Benjamin Kaufmann Roland Kaminski, and Torsten Schaub. "Answer Set Solving in Practice". Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2012.
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  • Thomas Hammerl, Nysret Musliu and Werner Schafhauser. "Metaheuristic Algorithms and Tree Decomposition", Handbook of Computational Intelligence, pp 1255–1270, Springer, 2015.
  • Hans L. Bodlaender, Arie M.C.A. Koster. "Treewidth computations I. Upper bounds", Comput. 208(2): 259–275, 2010.
  • Georg Gottlob, Nicola Leone, and Francesco Scarcello. "Hypertree decompositions and tractable queries", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 64(3):579–627, 2002. ISSN 0022-0000.
  • Artan Dermaku, Tobias Ganzow, Georg Gottlob, Ben McMahan, Nysret Musliu, and Marko Samer. "Heuristic methods for hypertree decomposition", In Alexander Gelbukh and Eduardo F. Morales, editors, MICAI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, volume 5317 of LNCS, pages 1–11. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-88635-8.

Subscribe to events of this course (icalendar)

Lecture Introduction DS4, April 8, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Uninformed vs. Informed Search DS4, April 15, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Local Search, Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing DS4, April 22, 2016 in APB E005 File
Exercise Tutorial 1 DS5, April 22, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Tabu Search, Practical Work DS4, April 29, 2016 in APB E005 File 1 File 2
Lecture ASP 1 DS4, May 6, 2016 in APB E005 File
Exercise Tutorial 2 DS5, May 6, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture ASP 2 DS4, May 13, 2016 in APB E005 File
Practical Practical Work 1 DS5, May 13, 2016 in APB E005
Lecture ASP 3 DS4, May 27, 2016 in APB E005
Exercise Tutorial 3 DS5, May 27, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture CSP DS4, June 3, 2016 in APB E005 File
Exercise Tutorial 4 DS4, June 10, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Evolutionary Algorithms DS4, June 10, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Structural Decompositions 1 DS4, June 17, 2016 in APB E005 File
Practical Practical Work 2 DS5, June 17, 2016 in APB E005
Lecture Structural Decompositions 2 DS4, June 24, 2016 in APB E005 File
Exercise Tutorial 5 DS5, June 24, 2016 in APB E005 File
Lecture Summary, Q&A DS4, July 1, 2016 in APB E005
Exercise Tutorial 6, Practical Work DS5, July 1, 2016 in APB E005 File


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