Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Office of Academics
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The course and timings-
Course Number and Title CSL7xx0 Artificial Intelligence
Lectures Days 2
Time
Venue Online
Tutorials Days 0
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Venue –
Laboratory Days 0
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Venue –
Instructor(s)-
Name Email Department Contact Number Office Address
Course Coordinator
Dr. Debasis Das [email protected] CSE (+91 291) 280 1261 214, Dept. of CSE
Co-Instructor
– – – – –
Tutors
Office Timings during the week:
Contact details of Teaching Assistants (TAs): Please contact the TAs for any query related to the course or
attendance.
Name of the TA Contact details
Bhumika
[email protected] Ayanabha Ghosh
[email protected] Detailed course content as approved by the Senate:
Title Artificial Intelligence Number CSL7xx0
Department Computer Science and Engineering L-T-P [C]
Offered for M.Tech. (Executive) Type Compulsory
Prerequisite None
Objectives
1. Cover various paradigms that come under the broad umbrella of AI.
Learning Outcomes
1. Develop an understanding of where and how AI can be used.
Course Content
Introduction: Uninformed search strategies, Greedy best-first search, And-Or search, Uniform cost search,
A* search, Memory-bounded heuristic search, Local and evolutionary searches (9 Lectures)
Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Backtracking search for CSPs, Local search for CSPs (3 Lectures)
Adversarial Search: Optimal Decision in Games, The minimax algorithm, Alpha-Beta pruning, Expectimax
search (4 Lectures)
Knowledge and Reasoning: Propositional Logic, Reasoning Patterns in propositional logic; First order logic:
syntax, semantics, Inference in First order logic, unification and lifting, backward chaining, resolution (9
Lectures)
Planning: Situation Calculus, Deductive planning, STRIPES, sub-goal, Partial order planner (3 Lectures)
Bayesian Network, Causality, and Uncertain Reasoning: Probabilistic models, directed and undirected
models, inferencing, causality, Introduction to Probabilistic reasoning (6 lectures)
Reinforcement Learning: MDP, Policy, Q-value, Passive RL, Active RL, Policy Search (8 Lectures)
Text Books:
1. Russel,S., and Norvig,P., (2015), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall
Reference Books:
1. Research literature
Online Course Material:
1. Introduction to AI by Prof. Mausam, IIT Delhi. NPTEL Link :
https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/106/102/106102220/
Evaluation policy for the course:
Components Weightage (%) Date and Timings Remarks
Assignments 20 %
Quizzes 30 %
Minor Written Examination
Major 50 % Closed Book, Written
examination, Scientific
calculators are
permitted
Projects – – –
Guidelines for Examination: As per institute norms
Attendance Policy: As per institute norms
Any other relevant information: NA
