Advanced Problem Solving and Search

Lehrveranstaltung mit SWS 2/2/0 (Vorlesung/Übung/Praktikum) in SS 2021

Dozent

Lucía Gómez Álvarez

Tutor

Lucía Gómez Álvarez

Umfang (SWS)

2/2/0

Module

Leistungskontrolle

Mündliche Prüfung

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
Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms
Structural Decomposition Techniques (Tree/Hypertree Decompositions)

The course does not cover topics in the area of Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

NOTE: This course was previously named Problem Solving and Search in Artificial Intelligence. The contents of former PSSAI and APSS are identical, and therefore students can only take one of the two courses.

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 tutorials, the students will analyze different problems and develop solutions for them.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of theoretical computer science and Logic.
Good English skills: both the teaching and examination will be exclusively in English.

Organisation

The goals can be acquired by studying the lecture material and solving the exercises of the tutorials.

The lectures will be held on Mondays DS2 (09.20 - 10.50 am) and the tutorials on Tuesdays DS2. Please check the schedule for changes.

The slides of the lectures and exercises of the tutorials will be uploaded in this page, in each corresponding session.

Announcement: because of the COVID-19 pandemic we will provide the materials for self-learning on the planned dates for lectures and we will have online live sessions for the tutorials. The lecture videos will be uploaded in OPAL and I invite you to use the forum to ask questions and share your exercise solutions.

Please, register for the course on the OPAL site: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/29670014985?6

Examination

This year, due to the exceptional COVID-19 pandemic, the exam will be written and online, on the OPAL-ONYX platform. It will mostly consist of single and multiple-choice questions as well as some quick exercises. There will be no oral examinations.

As a consequence, regarding complex examinations held jointly with another examiner:

- Students who wish to take a complex examination jointly with another examiner need to look for the main examiner. Due to the large number of registered students in PSSAI, I kindly request you to find another main examiner. - In principle, PSSAI will only offer separate partial examinations (Teilprüfungen) this semester.

Please follow this link to get the instructions for the examination:

https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/w/images/c/c0/Examination.pdf

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.

Veranstaltungskalender abonnieren (icalendar)

Vorlesung	Introduction	DS2, 12. April 2021 in Screencast
Vorlesung	Informed vs. Uninformed Search	DS2, 19. April 2021 in Screencast
Vorlesung	Local Search	DS2, 26. April 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 1 (Local Search)	DS2, 27. April 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	Tabu Search	DS2, 3. Mai 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 2 (Tabu Search)	DS2, 4. Mai 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	ASP 1	DS2, 10. Mai 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 3 (ASP 1)	DS2, 11. Mai 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	ASP 2	DS2, 17. Mai 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 4 (ASP 2)	DS2, 18. Mai 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	ASP 3	DS2, 31. Mai 2021 in Screencast
Vorlesung	CSP	DS2, 7. Juni 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 5 (CSP)	DS2, 8. Juni 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	Evolutionary Algorithms	DS2, 14. Juni 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 6 (EA 1)	DS2, 15. Juni 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	Structural Decompositions 1	DS2, 21. Juni 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 7 (Structural Decompositions)	DS2, 22. Juni 2021 in Screencast	Datei
Vorlesung	Structural Decompositions 2	DS2, 28. Juni 2021 in Screencast
Übung	Tutorial 8 (Structural Decompositions 2)	DS2, 29. Juni 2021 in Screencast
Vorlesung	Q&A	DS2, 5. Juli 2021 in Screencast	Datei

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