Week 1 [Jul. 29 -- Aug. 1]: Course Introduction+Logistics, different definitions of AI, historical persepective, CS6380 course in the context of other courses,
Agents and Environments. Definition of rational agent, different types of agents.
Slides: Week1-1 Week1-2 .
Reference: Chapter 1+2, AIMA, 4th edition.
Tutorial-0: ungraded
Week 2 [Aug. 4 -- Aug. 8]: Search Problem, Example Toy problem, state space search, Generic Search Algorithm, Example toy problems, Generic Seach Algorithm, BFS + DFS, Dijkstra's algorithm. Greedy Best First search + A* Algorithm. Admissibility
of the heuristc.
Slides: Week2 Reference: Chapter 3, AIMA, 4th edition.
Week 4 [Aug. 18 -- Aug. 22 ]: Local Search, Hill Climbing, effect of start state, effect of expand function, effect of evaluation function.
Slides: Week4 Reference: Chapter 4, AIMA, 4th edition.