I expect the grades to be ready
by Saturday, May 16, 5p, probably earlier. Those that signed to publish their
grades will receive a grade report by e-mail. Please do not
forget to turn in the requested program hardcopies by May 15.
I will be out of town for the next two weeks.
If you like to discuss matters concerning the class just contact me by the
end of May and we set up an appointment
in June; I will be mostly in Houston in June 1998. Those I will not
see soon a like to wish a happy and
productive Summer 1998. I had fun teaching the class!
The final exam is scheduled for Thursday, May 14, 11a; the review sheet for
the final exam can be accessed by following the indicated link! The
Results of TEST1 and TEST2 are available now!
Training
Data for your genetic programming system (Assignment 4) consisting of two symbolic regression problems can be found by following indicated link (each consists of 25 data points). Report the average Manhattan error of the best
solution for each benchmark. Students that find the best solution will
win a special prize. Legal solutions are limited to trees with
at most 45 crossover points. A LISP-environment that employs genetic programming to
solve a symbolic regression problem can
be found in the file gp.l
in the www 4350 directory! Compile your functions using compile-file, because
if you do not do so your system will be very slow (it might be still
slow after compiling...).
The LISP-programs found in the newest edition of our textbook
are now online! Just access the following
directory by following this link (the directory contains all LISP-programs of the second edition of the
textbook and a few programs provided by the instructor of the class). It should be worthwhile to
load, execute, understand, and analyze some of these programs in the
upcoming months, especially those that are discussed in chapters 3, 5, 7 and
14 of the textbook.
If you want to get from the outside into the COSC-computer network you
have telnet into hermes, and the rlogin into the machine of your
desire. Do not do your work on hermes!
If you want to run akcl, rlogin into one of the Sunwork-station (e.g.
crane, dodo,
or chicken) and just type:
akcl
If this doesn't work (because a path is missing in your .cshrc file) type:
/usr/local/bin/akcl
An interpreter for
for Allegro Common Lisp that you can download and install on your
PC is available on the world-wide Web. The URL is:
http://www.franz.com/
Franz Inc. is the company that sells this implementation of Common Lisp.
Assignments for COSC 4350 can be accessed
by following this link(Note that
this file will be updated, if the need arises! Currently, it contains
all the problems for Spring 1998 with the exception of problem 11, that
will be added by the end of March 1998).
An example run of the modified LEIBNIZ-system you have to
develop in problem 8 can now be accessed by following the indicated
link! Moreover, an example production system to test your program for problem
9 is now available.
General Course Information COSC 4350 for Spring 1997
Instructor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
office hours: TU noon-1 WE 3-4p in PGH 589
class room: 211 AH
0) Exam Dates and Weights
EXAM1 Tu., March 10, 10:00a 17%
EXAM2 Th., April 16, 10:00a 20%
FINAL EXAM Th., May 14, 11a 30%
COURSE PROJECTS 33%
1) CANCELLED CLASSES: Th., January 29; Th., March 26
MAKE-UP CLASS: Fr., April 24, 4:30-7:00p
2) There will be 5 homeworks/porgramming projects. Assignments and
programming projects are due at 7p at the day specified. This semester's due
dates are: Feb. 6, Feb. 23, March 12, April 6, and April 27. No late
assignments are accepted; that is, assignments submitted after the due date
will not be graded. However, each
student is allowed to turn in one of the five assignments 5 days late.
Assignments have to be submitted electronically at the due date; hard copies
have to be turned in during the next class following the due date.
3) There will be ungraded homework, whose solutions will be discussed in
class. Students are strongly advised to do this homework, which are a
good preparation for the exams of COSC 4350.
4) Each student has to have a weighted average of 50.0 or higher in the three
exams of the course in order to receive a grade of "D-" or better for the
course. All exams of the class are "open textbook".
5) Only machine written reports are accepted (the only exception
to this point are figures and complex formulas) in the assignments.
6) Do not throw away returned assignments or tests.
7) Be aware of the fact that our only source of information is what you
have turned in. If we are not capable to understand your solution, you
will receive a low score.
8) Assignments are individual products. Copying of reports, programs or parts
of programs written by other students, stealing of program listings,
cheating at exams and other violations of the academic honesty code will be
penalized by dropping the involved students from the course (with grade F);
moreover, we will try everything in our power to remove cheaters from our
degree program.
9) Translation number to letter grades:
A:100-90 A-:90-86 B+:86-82 B:82-78 B-:78-74 C+:74-70
C: 70-66 C-:66-62 D+:62-58 D:58-54 D-:54-50 F: 50-0
10) After submission, please leave your files untouched and do not destroy them
until the assignment has been graded. This guarantees that no problem
will occur in the case that your electronic submission fails due to
obscure reasons.
11) Visit this 4350-www-page frequently! It will contain all important
news concerning the class!
COURSE OUTLINE COSC 4350
"Artificial Intelligence Programming"
Main textbook: Stephen Tanimoto: "The Elements of Artificial Intelligence
using Common LISP", Computer Science Press, New York,
Second Edition(gives a brief introduction to
LISP and centers on discussing LISP-programs that
solve typical problems of Artificial Intelligence).
The following chapters will be covered in the class:
1-2-5-3-7-14-[10]-6 []:= only partially covered
LISP book: Paul Graham: "ANSI COMMON LISP", Prentice Hall, 1996 (gives
a more indepth introduction to LISP, but does not cover
too much AI; well written and very helpful for writing
LISP prgrams, even as a manual).
Topics: 1) Introduction to the programming language LISP
2) Development of (LISP) programs that simulate human
intelligence
3) Methods and techniques of Artificial Intelligence focusing on
the areas: a) Heuristic Search b) Rule-based Systems, Expert
Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems c) Automated Theorem Proving
d) Symbolic Programming e) Probabilistic Reasoning f) Genetic
Programming
Prerequisite: Programming experience(COSC 1410, 2320)
Topics (one class = 1 hour of teaching):
I Introduction to Artificial Intelligence[2 classes]
II LISP[12]
1. Basic concepts of LISP[1]
2. Representation and Transformation of list structures[2]
3. Recursive Programming in LISP[2]
4. Iterative Programming in LISP[1]
5. Data Structures in LISP[1]
6. Case Studies in Symbolic Programming [2]
7. Macros in LISP [2]
8. Advanced Features in LISP [1]
III Heuristic Search[12]
1. Characterization and Classification of (Heuristic) Search Problems[2]
2. Basic Search Strategies(Backtracking, Hill Climbing, Graphsearch)[4]
3. Case studies in Heuristic Search[4]
4. A* [2]
IV Rule Based Expert Systems[6]
1. What is a Rule Based Expert System[1]
2. Techniques in Expert Systems[1]
3. Unification[1]
4. Bayesian Inference Networks and their Application
in Diagnostic Expert Systems [3]
V Genetic Programming [6]
1. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming [2]
2. How does Genetic Programming work? [1]
3. Case Study: 2 Example Applications of Genetic Programming [3]
VI Resolution and Theorem Proving[5]
1. Introduction to Predicate Calculus[2]
2. The Resolution Method [2]
3. Resolution and PROLOG [1]
Laboratory projects:
a) Development of various small LISP-programs using different concepts of
the language solving problems of symbolic programming [2 weeks]
b) Implementation of several search strategies for different heuristic
search problems[3 weeks].
c) Implementation of a Bayesian Inference Network for Diagnostic
Decision Making [2 weeks]
d) Application of Evoluationary Programming to example problems [3 weeks]
e) Advanced Concepts in LISP (macros, catch&throuw,...) [2 weeks]
Remark: Topics of Lab projects might change due to change in
programming assignments.
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