spring 2019
STE6246-001 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents - Introduction - 5 ECTS

Application deadline

Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 December
Exchange students and Fulbright students: 1 October

Type of course

The course may be taken as a single subject.

Admission requirements

A relevant undergraduate bachelor Engineering programme with minimum 30 credits Mathematics/statistics topics.

Required prerequisite knowledge: SMN6192 Discrete mathematics with game- and graph theory

Application code: 9371


Course content

  • The students will be introduced to AI as a discipline and scientific research areas and understand its industrial and societal impact
  • The student will be introduced to an array of basic methods illustrating the different fields of AI and machine learning
  • A selection of decision and machine algorithms will be presented in depth and compared to each other
  • The subject of information management and decision theory with scarce or corrupted data will be treated.
  • The course will also introduce agents, agent architectures and agent learning for individual as well as colonies and groups

Objectives of the course

After passing this course the student should have obtained the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

The student shall have;

  • An overview of the field of Artificial Intelligence and its applications
  • Knowledge of symbolic methods, knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, simple fuzzy systems and learning methods like sequential covering
  • Knowledge of how to deal with incomplete, scarce and qualitative data
  • Knowledge of numerical methods including perceptron based neural networks, basic genetic algorithms.
  • Basic understanding of classification, clustering and regression methods

Skills

The student should be able to;

  • To program basic AI and machine learning algorithms
  • Create simple diagnosis, prediction, classification and recommendation systems

General Competence

  • The student will be able to contribute effectively in industrial AI and machine learning projects
  • The student will have sufficient knowledge to pursue self-studies in specific AI and machine learning topics.

Language of instruction and examination

English

Teaching methods

40 hours of lectures and hands-on class exercises

30 hours of self-study exercises with guidance to be handed in for approval

Lectures will be held in English (Provided the presence of English speaking students, English will be chosen).

Lecture notes will be given in English.

Written examination will be in English


Assessment

Written examination, only simple calculator allowed during the exam.

Letter grading A – F, where F is fail grade.

There will be arranged a re-sit exam for this course.


Recommended reading/syllabus

The syllabus (project description) will be presented in the beginning of the course.

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  • About the course
  • Campus: Narvik |
  • ECTS: 5
  • Course code: STE6246-001
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