CPSC 433: Artificial Intelligence - Materials

Textbooks

The following is a collection of text books on AI. I recommend that you look at them in the library (and any other AI books you find there) and decide for yourself which one you find best (i.e. which one explains the best the things that you did not understand in the lectures and labs). They all have a rather large overlap in their content and none of them covers all of the course (in the depth that I want the different topics covered). Note that some of them are out of print (but you might be able to buy used copies cheap). It might also be interesting to compare the rather old books with the newer one (you will see that new means not always better).

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Charniak, McDermott (Addison Wesley), 1985.
Artificial Intelligence - Second Edition - Rich, Knight (McGraw Hill), 1991.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Russell, Norviq (Prentice Hall), 1994.
Artificial Intelligence - Luger (Addison Wesley), 1997.

Files to the course

This file contains two chapters of a book I have written in German and I am in the process of translating it into English. It explains compactly search in general and the search paradigms we will be covering in this course. Note that since the book is not published yet, I have restricted access to computers in the ucalgary domain.

I have also put together a list of questions aimed at preparing you for the Midterm and the Final. Note that the Final will also cover all of the topics of the Midterm! Students also frequently ask for some search problems they can use to prepare for exams (since there are a lot of questions in the list that ask for formalizing some parts of a search problem).

The slides containing the general information on a particular topic that I use in the lectures will be available before the respective lectures here as Acrobat pdf-files (in two formats: one slide per page and the 6 slides per page handout). It is recommended that students take a look at the slides before I go over them in lecture so that they can ask questions and are prepared for the examples we will be going through (they are not completely part of the slides).

Date	handout format	one slide per page
Jan. 9	Introduction	Introduction
Jan. 11	Knowledge Processing: Intro	Knowledge Processing: Intro
Jan. 16	Search: Basic Definitions	Search: Basic Definitions
Jan. 18	Set-based search	Set-based search
Jan. 30	And-tree-based search	And-tree-based search
Feb. 8	Or-tree-based search	Or-tree-based search
Feb. 15	Other search models	Other search models
Feb. 15	Search controls	Search controls
Feb. 27	Knowledge representation - intro	Knowledge representation - intro
Mar. 13	Knowledge representation - First-order logic	Knowledge representation - First-order logic
Mar. 15	Rule-based systems	Rule-based systems
Mar. 22	Frame-based systems	Frame-based systems
Mar. 27	Semantic Networks	Semantic Networks
Mar. 29	Neural Networks	Neural Networks
Apr. 3	Add-ons: Constraints	Add-ons: Constraints
Apr. 5	Learning	Learning
Apr. 10	Cooperation	Cooperation

to the assignments of the course.

Last Change: 9/4/2007