Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - Oct 28th exam - score has been published.

Dear learner

The results for Oct 28th exam have been published.

How to check the results:

 To check the results goto nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in
  1. Login with the course enrolled mail id.
  2. Clicking on the course name will redirect to the score board.
  3. Click on Exam Scores - Both the Assignment scores and Exam score will be displayed.
  4. Final score is the certification score

Calculation Logic for each course is provided in the same page.

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Note: For each course, reporting of issues comes with its own deadline (date and time) check the exam score/e-certificate as soon as you receive our notification.

Once the certificates are printed, reprint of certificates with corrections will be done only by paying additional fees.

To check the status of scores and e-certificates:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQP7g1yNTer1DlcBy3Q8THc3qHwpu2woFIo-OmJSwOoUVdo6Q2HioQCwbeMUaq0u7hRHwzURYCXpQof/pubhtml

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E-certificates

E-certificates will be available in nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in  3 days after the release of the scores.

You will be informed via mail and SMS about the release of the results and the release of e-certificates

If you are unable to see the scores/e-certificates, please write to nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in

If you want to bring any specific issues wrt the scores/e-certificates to our attention, you can file the issue in http://nptel.ac.in/noc/ (Available in candidates login at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/)

- NPTEL TEAM

Feedback for Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is : https://goo.gl/6QzZEA

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team  

AI: SMPS End of Course!

Dear Student,

We do hope you enjoyed and benefited from the AI: Search Methods for Problem Solving course! Problem solving using search is a fundamental capability without which an intelligent agent cannot function autonomously.  Another necessary feature for intelligence is the ability to represent the world and reason with those representations. We look forward to your participation  in the AI: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning course being offered next semester.

We wish you all the best for the final examination tomorrow! If you have done all the weekly assignments diligently the paper tomorrow should be smooth sailing! 

With best wishes!



Deepak Khemani
Shikha Singh
Devi G

AI:SMPS Week 12 assignment solution uploaded

Dear Learners,

Week 12 assignment solution has also been uploaded in the portal.

Regards,
Devi

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received " 124 " submissions for Assignment 12 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 12 is "2018-10-24, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

AI:SMPS Week 11 assignment solution uploaded

Dear Learners,

Week 11 assignment solution has also been uploaded in the portal.

Regards,
Shikha

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving : Hall ticket for October 28, 2018 NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the October 28th 2018 NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:

1 . Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access the link and download the hall-ticket.

2 . You can also download it from the alternate link given below:


If you are not able to find your hall ticket , kindly write to us at – noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on October 28, 2018. 

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.

Note:- If you are writing 2 exams – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted inside the login.

In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us – noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

On-Screen Calculator Demo Link:

Kindly use the below link to get an idea of how the On-screen calculator will work during the online exam .


Note: On the fourth page ( Group Instruction ) Proceed to Next button will be enabled after 1 minute kindly wait .

Refer the video link below if you have any doubts 


NOTE: Physical calculators are not allowed inside the exam hall.

IMPORTANT:

Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be done .What's mentioned in your Hall-ticket is final .

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL team

Week 12 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received " 161 " submissions for Assignment 11 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 11 is "2018-10-17, 23:59 IST".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

Week 12 LIVE : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Week 12 Lecture Video & Assignment are now available on the portal.

Due date for the assignment: 2018-10-24, 23:59 IST.

AI:SMPS Week 10 assignment solution uploaded

Dear Learners,

Week 10 assignment solution has also been uploaded in the portal.

Regards,
Shikha

Week 11 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "163 " submissions for Assignment 10 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 10 is "2018-10-10, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

Exam and Certificate Format : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Type of exam: Computer based exam 

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Photo Identification Card(Example: Driving License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the allotted exam center details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around  17th October,2018 to 20th October, 2018. We will notify the same through email.

 FINAL CERTIFICATE:

The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate

2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"

3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top

4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

 
-NPTEL Admin

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "163 " submissions for Assignment 10 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 10 is "2018-10-10, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

Week 11 Assignment LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Week 11 Assignment has been uploaded in the portal.
Due date for the assignment: 2018-10-17, 23:59 IST.

Assignment URL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs51/unit?unit=66&assessment=139

Week 11 LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Week 11 Contents are now available on the portal.
Assignment will be released shortly.

AI: SMPS Re-evaluation of Week 9 assignment; Solution uploaded.

Dear Learners,

Week 9 assignment (Q8 and Q10) has been reevaluated with the following changes:

1. The answer to Q8: S,T (not S,T,U,V)
2. The answer to Q10: V,U,T,S,R,P,O,N,M,L,J,H,F (not V,U,T,S,R,P,,N,M,L,J,H,F)

Please check your updated scores in the progress tab and get back to us if there is any discrepancy.
 
The solutions have also been uploaded in the portal.


regards,
Shikha


Week 10 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Week 10 LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Week 10 Lecture Videos and Assignment are now available on the portal.

Due date for the assignment: 2018-10-10, 23:59 IST.

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "139 " submissions for Assignment 9 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 9 is "2018-10-03, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

AI:SMPS Week 8 Solution

Dear Students,
Week 8 solutions have been uploaded in portal.

Regards,
Devi

Week 9 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "185 " submissions for Assignment 8 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 8 is "2018-09-26, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team 

Week 9 LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Week 9 Lecture Video and Assignment are now available on the portal.

Due date for the assignment: 2018-10-03, 23:59 IST.

AI:SMPS- Week 7 Solution

Dear Students,

Solutions to week 7 assignments has been uploaded. 

Regards,
Shikha  

Week 8 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.



Thank you.
-NPTEL team

AI:SMPS Assignment 6 - Re-evaluation regarding

Dear All,

As many of you have already noticed, Questions 7,8 and 13 to 16 of Assignment 6 have been re-evaluated. 

Question 7 & 8: Branch & bound algorithm does not maintain a CLOSED list and can have duplicate copies of the same nodes with different costs in its search tree. Please see worked out solutions uploaded in portal and convince yourself that P,Q,L,J,U,I,I,K is the correct order.

Question 13 to 16: In Weighted A*, we use weighted heuristic function i.e. if w is some weight, we have  w*h(n) instead of h(n) while calculating f(n). Though knowledge  about A* is sufficient to answer this question, as the definition of weighted A* was not given explicitly, these questions have been removed from Week 6 Assignment.

You will see these questions with 0 points in your re-evaluated assignment irrespective of whether your answers are right or wrong. 

We appreciate the efforts of students like Shyam.9201.08, Saurav Malla, Saheli Bhattacharjee, Amitapathania700 and others who had actively figured out what weighted A* is and got it correct. We encourage everyone to look into the uploaded solutions and work out weighted A* for yourself as it is included in portions for final exam.


Regards,
Devi

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received " 154" submissions for Assignment 7 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 7 is "2018-09-19, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

Week 8 LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners,

Week 8 Lecture Videos and Assignment are now available on the portal.

Due date for the Assignment: 2018-09-26, 23:59 IST.

Week 7 Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

AI:SMPS Week 5 and 6 Solutions Uploaded

Dear Students,

Solutions to week 5 and week 6 assignments have been uploaded. 

Week 6 will be re-evaluated soon for Questions 7,8 (for B&B) and Q 13,14,15,16 (Weighted A*) after which an announcement will be made.



Regards,
Devi      

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "295 " submissions for Assignment 5 and  "122 " submissions for Assignment 6 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 5 and 6 is "2018-09-12, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

Week 7 LIVE - Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Learners
 
Week 7 Lecture Videos and Assignment are now available on the portal.
Due date for the assignment: 2018-09-19, 23:59 IST.


Exam Registration extended till Sep 17, 2018 - 10:00AM !!

Dear Learners

We have received requests from colleges and learners to extend the exam form and hence it is being extended till 17 September 2018 10am. Payment can be done till 18 September 2018 10am. This is for courses that have exams on 28 October 2018.

Certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

-NPTEL Team

AI:SMPS Week 3 and 4 Solutions Uploaded

Dear Students,


Solutions to week 3 and week 4 assignments have been uploaded.

Regards,
Shikha

Week 6 - Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "715 " submissions for Assignment 3 and  "264 " submissions for Assignment 4 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 3 and 4 is "2018-09-05, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - WEEK 6 LIVE

Week 6 Videos and Assignment are now available on the portal.

The due date for the Assignment is 2018-09-12, 23:59 IST.

Week 5 - Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - WEEK 5 LIVE

Dear Learners

Week 5 Lecture Contents and Assignment are now available on the portal.

The due date for Assignment is: 2018-09-12, 23:59 IST.

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving: Assignment 2- Q7 re-evaluated

 Dear All,

 Reevaluation for Assignment 2-Q7 has been done. Please refer to the solution uploaded and forum discussions for any doubt in the concerned question. 

 Please check your new score and let us know if there is still any discrepancy in marks.   

 Regards,
 Shikha



Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving: General announcements regarding assignments

  • Please follow the formatting instructions properly while answering the Short Answer type questions.
Wherever you are required to type in the answer (instead of clicking on a button) please DO NOT ENTER ANY BLANKS. This is the assessment is evaluated by a program that does exact string matching. An extra blank in the answer will result in even a correct answer being evaluated as wrong

This “no blanks” policy will hold THROUGHOUT this course.
  • Deadline of assignment 0, 1 and 2 have been passed and we cannot reopen them for you. Assignment 0 will not be considered in the final grading.
  • For certification, the following grading pattern will be followed:
    • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
    • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 8 out of 12 assignments
  • Subscribe to the forum in order to get forum activity updates on your registered email.
  • For assignment 4, we have uploaded a supplementary table (Table 4.2) of heuristic values to solve Q15 & Q16.

Regards,
Shikha

Week 4- Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.

Here is the link to the form: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/nocprofile/super_admin/weekly_feedback/form_login.php

Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - Due dates for Assignment 3 Extended!!

Dear Learners

In view of the large scale flooding in Kerala, we are getting multiple requests from colleges through emails and forum requests. So we have decided to extend the deadline of the assignments.

Deadline for Assignment 3 has been extended till Sep 5, 2018.

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - Assignment 4 LIVE

Dear Learners

Week 4 Lecture Contents and Assignment are now available on the portal.

The due date for Assignment is: 2018-09-05, 23:59 IST.

AI:SMPS Week 1 and 2 Solutions Uploaded

Dear Students,
Solutions for Week 1 and 2 have been uploaded.

Regards,
Devi

Subscribe to the forum

Dear learners,


Same questions are being asked multiple times in the forum. Please subscribe to the forum so that you are notified about all the discussions on your registered email id. and before posting your doubt please check the forum first if similar doubts have been answered before.


Thanks.
Shikha

Week 1- Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for enrolling to this NPTEL course and we hope you have gone through the contents for this week and also attempted the assignment.
We value your feedback and wish to know how you found the videos and the questions asked - whether they were easy, difficult, as per your expectations, etc
We shall use this to make the course better and we can also know from the feedback which concepts need more explanation, etc.

Please do spare some time to give your feedback - comprises just 5 questions - should not take more than a minute, but makes a lot of difference for us as we know what the learners feel.


Thank you.
- NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear Participants, 

We have received "1970" submissions for Assignment 1 and  "423" submissions for Assignment 2 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 1 and 2 are "15-08-2018,23:59 IST".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.  

The due date for the assignment 3 is "2018-08-22, 23:59 IST." 

-NPTEL Team

Week 2- Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Week 3- Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - Assignment 3 LIVE

Dear Learners

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving Assignment 3 is now available on the portal. The due date for the Assignment is 2018-08-22, 23:59 IST.

Assignment URL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs51/unit?unit=18&assessment=109

Reminder-1: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Learner:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the October 2018 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is open only to students who have enrolled in the course.  If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course.

Till the start date of the course, every Monday and Thursday at 5pm, we will sync the enrollment data on the exam form. If you enroll in between, please wait till the nearest Monday/Thursday to register for the exam. Once the enrollment is closed, the enrollment data will be completely loaded and you can register any time.

Dates of exam: October 28, 2018

Certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
Exam Session time: Forenoon: 9.00 AM -12.00 PM ; Afternoon: 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Examination Cities: Click here to access the list of exam cities: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/images/examcities_final.pdf

Registration fees: Rs 1100/- per course exam

(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)Students belonging to the PwD category with more than 40% disability can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the option and upload the relevant Disability certificate.)

Last date for registration:  10th September 2018 10.00 am (Monday).

Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking or via SPOC of college

HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively in the Mid of October 2018. We will confirm the same through an announcement once it is published.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score >= 40%

Please check the Announcements section of your course for further details on this.


The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- you can add or delete courses and pay separately – till the date when the exam form closes. No changes will be entertained after that.   You can register for a maximum of 4 course exams ( 2 on Oct 7 and 2 on Oct 28. Same day of exam – you can write exams for 2 courses in the 2 sessions. Same center will be allocated for both the sessions).

2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-

1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.
2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.
3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.
The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.
If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.
Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.
If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.

Please read the instructions carefully before submitting the form.
In case of any queries please write to us at noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL TEAM

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving - Assignment 2 LIVE

Dear Learners

Assignment 2 is now available on the portal. The due date foe the assignment is 2018-08-15, 23:59 IST.

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving: Introduction-Slides available...

Dear learners,

Find Week 1 discussion in Introduction-Slides available here (uploaded under week 1 content).

Best,
Shikha

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving : Week 1 Assignment is live now!!

Dear Learners,

Week 1 assignment is live now.
Assignment link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs51/unit?unit=1&assessment=104
Due date is 2018-08-15, 23:59 IST.

-NPTEL Team

Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving : NPTEL signs MOU with AICTE for Faculty Development Program

Dear Learners

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NPTEL have signed an MOU on July 24, 2018 whereby advanced NPTEL online certification courses are approved for Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by AICTE.

According to the above notification, the course " Artificial Intelligence Search Methods for problem Solving" is approved for Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by AICTE.

Hope this benefits faculty in more ways and we invite you to participate and enjoy the process of learning through NPTEL.

For more details please visit: http://nptel.ac.in/AICTE_FDP/

NOTE:  The AICTE FDP is applicable from Jul-Dec 2018 semester onward. This will NOT be applicable to previously completed NPTEL Certification Courses.

-NPTEL Team

Welcome to Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be seen as the quest of building thinking machines. Some practitioners say that AI involves mimicking human intelligence, but I like the definition given by John Haugeland (1945 - 2010) who said that the goal of AI is to build "machines with minds of their own". We begin this course with a history of this quest, which goes back to times much before the digital computer appeared on the scene.

We have already uploaded three weeks of videos. This is because in the first week we discuss the history of AI, and the philosophical questions like what is thinking, and can a machine think? Looking at the first week only might lead someone to come to the conclusion that this is a humanities stream course; but hopefully weeks 2 and 3 will dispel this notion and place it firmly as a computer science course. 

AI has many facets to it - the ability to solve problems; the ability to represent our world and reason with the representations; the capacity of memory and learning from experience; the ability to use language; the ability to peer into the future using models of the domain and plan ahead; the ability to handle uncertainty; the ability to learn from data (machine learning); and many others. 

In this course we focus on problem solving by first principles. How does one model the domain and the choices available, represent the problem, and find a solution. The principal method is trial and error; or search. We "mentally" explore the possibilities and choose the best looking one. Like a beginning chess player. A chess grand-master has other bows in her repertoire, like recognizing patterns and using knowledge. We will look at games like chess in the course, but only on how to play them using heuristic search.

In two other courses I offer on NPTEL - AI:Knowledge Representation & Reasoning and AI: Constraint Satisfaction Problems - we course some other aspects of AI. Other colleagues offer still other aspects like machine learning and natural language processing. 

In this offering of the course I will be assisted by two PhD students from IIT Madras - Devi G. and Shikha Singh. Between the three of us we should be able to respond to your queries, and have an active discussion on the Forum. I hope that the next twelve weeks or so will be a productive and enjoyable experience for all of us.

Welcome the the course AI: Search Methods for Problem Solving!

Deepak Khemani






AI:SMPS - week 2 and week 3 content available!

Dear learners,

Week 2 and week 3 video lectures have also been made available on the course page to give you an idea of the content that we will be covering in this course.
We will put up lecture slides soon.

Happy learning!

Regards,
Shikha

Progressive Web App (PWA) for NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Dear Learners

We have launched the PWA version of the onlinecourses portal, that is mobile friendly.  Login and see the view for the courses you have enrolled to. It will work better with chrome.

NOTE: Mobile App won't allow you to join the courses and submit the assignments. This can be done only through desktop for now.

Step 1:  Goto https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/ through mobile

Step 2:  Allow notifications when it prompts. 

Step 3: Add it to the Home screen when it prompts / Add to home screen from chrome settings.

Step 4: Login with your enrolled id.

Here is the link for the short video: https://youtu.be/CPpVacKtHTw

 We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations on this. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better. 

Here is the link for the Feedback form: https://goo.gl/ScLq3m 

In case of any queries please write to us at : nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in

-NPTEL Team

AI: SMPS- Week 1 video lectures are LIVE!!!

Dear Learners,

Week 1 video lectures are available on the course page. 

Happy learning!

Regards,
Shikha
TA

AI:SMPS: Welcome to the course ! Assignment - 0 is released.

Dear Learners,

Welcome to AI:Search Methods for Problem Solving course!

We have now released an Assignment-0 which is meant to verify that you the learner are equipped to do the course.

Please find Assignment-0 here (Login in using your id at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs51/preview and Course Outline --> Pre-requisite Assignment --> Quiz: Assignment-0).

After completion, you can verify the correctness of your answers by clicking on 'Check Answers' button.

Please note that your scores in Assignment-0 are not considered for evaluation.

We hope you will enjoy the learning process and benefit from it.

With best wishes!

Deepak Khemani (instructor)
Shikha Singh (teaching assistant)
Devi G (teaching assistant)  

Welcome to the NPTEL Online certification course - Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course "Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on July 30,2018. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.

There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:
•    The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.     
•    The Ask a Question which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

Details regarding the course:

Name of the course:  Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving
Course duration : 12 Weeks
  • Date of exams: October 28,2018
  • Time of Exams:: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
  • Exam for this course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
  • Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly

Once again, thank you for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning - NPTEL team.