1. CSC 361 Artificial Intelligence
Dr.Yuan Tian
Orientation

2. Course Overview Course title: Artificial Intelligence Instructors:
Dr. Yuan Tian —Course Coordinator
Ms. Hadeel Alnegheimish
Credit hours: 3 Hours Lecture/week
1 Hour Tutorial/week

3. Textbook Further reading: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig,
Prentice Hall, 3rd edition 2010
Further reading:
George F. Luger, “Artificial Intelligence – Structures and Strategies for Complex problem solving", Pearson International Edition, Sixth edition, 2009.
Ben Coppin, “Artificial Intelligence Illuminated”, Jones and Bartlett Illuminated Series, 2004.
Nils Nilsson, “Artificial Intelligence: A new synthesis”, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

4. Goals of CSC 361
It provides a general introduction to artificial intelligence, its techniques and its main subfields.
Areas we will cover:
Course introduction
Introduction to AI
Intelligent agents;
Search
Constraint Satisfaction Problems(CSP)
Game Trees
Markov Decision Processes
Probability
Propositional and First-Order Logic
Expert System
Introduction to Machine learning

5. Grading Quizzes: 10 points Tutorials + Assignments: 10 points
Project(Presentation+Report): 10 points
Midterm 1: 15 points
Midterm 2: 15 points
Final Exam: 40 points

6. About Project… Content Requirements:
To develop intelligent software including modeling, design and performance evaluation.
Requirements:
3 (or 2) students/group
Final Report (Problem statement, Mathematical modelling, Complete solution, Program)
A detailed written report of the project should be submitted in the first week after finishing all lectures.

7. Policies Late submission policy:
• Maximum 2 late days per assignment/project deliverable
• Each late day penalized with 10%
• No subdivision of late days
Legal notices on the world-wide web: Read and comply with accompanying legal notices of downloadable material
Specify references used in assignments and project
Plagiarism and cheating: Will not be tolerated. Please read the policies of the Computer Science Department

8. Attendances (New Rules )
Anyone with absence of 25% or more will be barred from entering the final exam, NO EXCEPTIONS will be made (even if the student is in his/her final Semester).
NO medical excuses should be accepted as a way for deducting the number of absence days (25% of allowed absence in a semester is actually there for the purpose of such health or other emergency circumstances).
A medical excuse may only be used in the case that a student misses an exam (to allow for a make-up exam), however, the absence should still be counted.
After 15 minutes of being late, student will be considered as absent.

9. Exam Dates Quiz1: 16/10/2016(Sunday) Mid1: 23/10/2016(Sunday)
Final: 8/1/2017(Sunday)

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