Problem Solving and Search in Artificial Intelligence
From International Center for Computational Logic
Problem Solving and Search in Artificial Intelligence
Course with SWS 2/1/2 (lecture/exercise/practical) in WS 2019
Lecturer
Tutor
SWS
- 2/1/2
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
- Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms
- Structural Decomposition Techniques (Tree/Hypertree Decompositions)
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
Basic 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 practical work should be performed in groups of two students throughout the semester with regular updates on the progress.
The lecture will be on Tuesday DS1 and the tutorials and practical sessions on Thursday DS1. Please check the concrete schedule for changes.
The course is full, no furhter registrations will be accepted.- 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 | DS1, October 15, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Informed vs. Uninformed Search | DS1, October 22, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Practical | Practical Work Topic | DS1, October 24, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Local Search | DS1, October 29, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 1 (Local Search) | DS1, November 7, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Tabu Search | DS1, November 12, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | ASP 1 | DS1, November 14, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 2 (Tabu Search) | DS1, November 19, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 3 (ASP 1) | DS1, November 21, 2019 in APB E005 | |
| Lecture | ASP 2 | DS1, November 26, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Practical | Practical Work Discussion | DS1, November 28, 2019 in APB E005 | |
| Lecture | ASP 3 | DS1, December 3, 2019 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 4 (ASP 2) | DS1, December 5, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | CSP | DS1, December 10, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Evolutionary Algorithms | DS1, December 17, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 5 (CSP) | DS1, December 19, 2019 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Structural Decompositions 1 | DS1, January 7, 2020 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Structural Decompositions 2 | DS1, January 14, 2020 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 6 (Structural Decompositions) | DS1, January 16, 2020 in APB E005 | File |
| Practical | Practical Work Presentations | DS1, January 21, 2020 in APB E005 | |
| Practical | Practical Work Presentations | DS1, January 23, 2020 in APB E005 | |
| Lecture | Q&A | DS1, February 4, 2020 in APB E005 |
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