An intelligent agent needs to be able to solve problems in its world. The ability to create representations of the domain of interest and reason with these representations is a key to intelligence. In this course we explore a variety of representation formalisms and the associated algorithms for reasoning. We start with a simple language of propositions, and move on to first order logic, and then to representations for reasoning about action, change, situations, and about other agents in incomplete information situations.
This course is a companion to the course “Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving” that was offered recently and the lectures for which are available online.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: BE/ME/MS/MSc/PhD students
PRE-REQUISITES: Some exposure to formal languages, logic and programming
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Software companies dealing with knowledge and reasoning, including the semantic web and semantic search.
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COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
Deepak Khemani is Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. He completed his B.Tech. (1980) in Mechanical Engineering, and M.Tech. (1983) and PhD. (1989) in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, and has been with IIT Madras since then. In between he spent a year at Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune and another at the youngest IIT at Mandi. He has had shorter stays at several Computing departments in Europe. Prof Khemani’s long-term goals are to build articulate problem solving systems using AI that can interact with human beings. His research interests include Memory Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Planning and Constraint Satisfaction, Qualitative Reasoning and Natural Language Processing. COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1: Introduction, Propositional Logic, Syntax and Semantics Week 2: Proof Systems, Natural Deduction, Tableau Method, Resolution Method Week 3: First Order Logic (FOL), Syntax and Semantics, Unification, Forward Chaining Week 4: The Rete Algorithm, Rete example, Programming Rule Based Systems Week 5: Representation in FOL, Categories and Properties, Reification, Event Calculus Week 6: Conceptual Dependency (CD) Theory, Understanding Natural Language Week 7: Deductive Retrieval, Backward Chaining, Logic Programming with Prolog Week 8: Resolution Refutation in FOL, FOL with Equality, Complexity of Theorem Proving Week 9: Semantic Nets, Frames, Scripts, Goals and Plans Week 10: Description Logic (DL), Structure Matching, Classification Week 11: Extensions of DL, The ALC Language, Inheritance in Taxonomies Week 12: Default Reasoning, Circumscription, The Event Calculus Revisited Week 13: Default Logic, Autoepistemic Logic, Epistemic Logic, Multi Agent Scenarios
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date of Exam: April 27th 2019 (Saturday).
Time of Exam: Morning session 9am to 2 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
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
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
