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.- Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" (3. edition ). Pearson Education, 2010.
- 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.
- Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz. "Classical negation in logic programs and disjunctive databases". New Generation Comput., 9(3–4):365–386, 1991.
- A.E. Eiben and J.E. Smith. "Introduction to Evolutionary Computing", Springer, 2003.
- 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 |
| Lecture | Evolutionary Algorithms | DS4, June 10, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 4 | 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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