CSC7444:  Advanced Artificial Intelligence

    Class time: Tuesday and Thursday from 1:40pm to 3:00pm

    Classroom: 129 Tureaud Hall

   Instructor: Dr. Jianhua Chen

         Contact info:   E-mail: jianhua@csc.lsu.edu
                                  Tel: 225-578-4340
                                  Office:  282 Coates Hall
        
         Office Hours:   W 1:30pm to 3:00pm and T, TH 3:10pm to 4:30pm
 
         Other times:  By appointment
         
         

      Grader: No TA for this class

        
         
         
          More info. about the class: class announcement


      Text Book: Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach

             web site for the text book

                   


       Reminder 

         Mid-Term Exam:    Thursday Oct. 23, 2008, in class time

                  (Open Book Exam - text book and my notes on logic are allowed, but NO class notes, NO internet access)


            link for joining the google group for class discussion
 
            link to notes  on propositional logic   modeling by logic

                        

        Other links

             link to Alana Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"      a text-only version of Turing's paper

             the 8-queens puzzle      the missionaries and cannibals puzzle

              link to a paper by Dr. Chen and colleagues on UUV control by NN and GA

              link to a paper on applying GA for playing checkers        the checkers game  
           
              link to a tutorial paper on Neural Networks

              link to a website containing intersting applications of GA
                
  
              the traveling sales man problem                


              link to ICML 07 proceedings

              link to ICML06 proceedings
                              
             link to ICML05 proceedings          

             link to ICML04 proceedings

              link to ICML03 proceedings

            

         Group Presentations:

                      Group 1:     members     topic:    Maze exploration by autonomous robot

                      Group 2:     members     topic:    Automated reasoning

                      Group 3:     members      topic:    Computer game playing
             

         Individual Term Paper Presentations:

                     Thursday December 4, 2008 
                 Presenter: Pavani Gottipati
Topic: Collaborative Robot Exploration and Rendezvous link to paper

        Class Final Exam (Presentations) Date/Time:

                    Monday December 8, 2008, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

                 Presenters:
 
                Jong-Hoon Kim         Topic: Robotics - handling noisy sensor data for mobil robots
             Harry Moore             Topic: Satisfiability as an optimization problem
             Alfred Samman         Topic:  Machine learning for online advertisement
             Daniel Smith             Topic:  AI techniques for autonomous underwater vehicles     link to presentation
             Jason Tate                    Topic:  Differences between game AI and classical acamemic AI
               Jerry Weltman           Topic:  Human XP: representing belief, desire and hidden meaning
                   

       Additional Presentations

                  Saturday December 13, 2008, from 2:30pm to 4:00pm

                  Presenters:

               Sai Sunil Devaiahgari       Topic: 
Supervised Clustering of Streaming Data for Email Batch Detection   link to paper
                  Bhaskar Nidumukalla        Topic:  Robotic exploration (mapping) of unknown environment
                  Forrest Osterman            Topic:  Bahavior-based agent modeling in Simbad
               Kyle Wall                          Topic: Multiple agent negotiation and strategy construction
               
               

                             

        Written Term Paper Due Date/Time: 

                      Saturday  December 13,  2008,  by 5pm.