Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Module-I: INTRODUCTION –The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence; - INTELLIGENT AGENTS – Agents and Environments, Good Behaviour: The Concept of Rationality, the Nature of Environments, the Structure of Agents, SOLVING PROBLEMS BY SEARCH – Problem-Solving Agents, Formulating problems, Searching for Solutions, Uninformed Search Strategies, Breadth-first search, Depth-first search, Searching with Partial Information, Informed (Heuristic) Search Strategies, Greedy best-first search, A* Search, CSP, Means-End-Analysis.

Module-II: ADVERSARIAL SEARCH – Games, The Mini-Max algorithm, optimal decisions in multiplayer games, Alpha- Beta Pruning, Evaluation functions, Cutting off search, LOGICAL AGENTS – Knowledge-Based agents, Logic, Propositional Logic, Reasoning Patterns in Propositional Logic, Resolution, Forward and Backward chaining - FIRST ORDER LOGIC – Syntax and Semantics of First-Order Logic, Using First-Order Logic , Knowledge Engineering in First-Order Logic - INFERENCE IN FIRST ORDER LOGIC – Propositional vs. First-Order Inference, Unification and Lifting, Forward Chaining, Backward Chaining, Resolution

Module-III: UNCERTAINTY – Acting under Uncertainty, Basic Probability Notation, The Axioms of Probability, Inference Using Full Joint Distributions, Independence, Bayes’ Rule and its Use, PROBABILISTIC REASONING – Representing Knowledge in an Uncertain Domain, The Semantics of Bayesian Networks, Efficient Representation
of Conditional Distribution, Exact Inference in Bayesian Networks, Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks

Module-IV: LEARNING METHODS – Statistical Learning, Learning with Complete Data, Learning with Hidden Variables, Rote Learning, Learning by Taking Advice, Learning in Problem-solving, learningfrom Examples: Induction, Explanation-based Learning, Discovery, Analogy, FormalLearning Theory, Neural Net Learning and Genetic Learning. Expert Systems: Representingand Using Domain Knowledge, Expert System Shells, Explanation, Knowledge Acquisition.

Books:
[1] Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight, & Shivashankar B Nair, Artificial Intelligence, McGraw Hill,3rd ed.,2009
[2] Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence -A Modern Approach, 2/e, Pearson, 2003.
[3] Nils J Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann Publications,2000
[4] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Dan W Patterson, PHI.,2010
[5] S Kaushik, Artificial Intelligence, Cengage Learning, 1st ed.2011