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Artificial Intelligence

Niveau

Master's course

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The following skills are developed in the course:

- Students are familiar with different strategies for the implementation of artificially intelligent systems.
- Students understand the advantages and disadvantages of the strategies developed and are aware of their chal-lenges.
- Students can develop strategies to design artificially intelligent systems for practical use.

Prerequisites for the course

No prerequisites

Course content

The following content is discussed in the course:

- Reasoning approaches (Roal trees, rule-based expert systems)
- Search approaches (depth-first, hill climbing, beam, optimal, branch and bound, A*, games, minimax, and alpha-beta)
- Constraint approaches (search, domain reduction, visual object recognition)
- Learning approaches (neural nets, back propagation, genetic algorithms, sparse spaces, phonology, near misses, felicity conditions, support vector machines, boosting)
- Representation approaches (classes, trajectories, transitions)
- Possible applications of artificial intelligence in different contexts
- Weak versus strong, artificial intelligence

This course is offered together with the Web Communication and Information Systems Master program as an elective course.

Recommended specialist literature

PRIMARY LITERATURE:
- Winson, P. H. (1992): Artificial Intelligence (Ed. 3), Pearson, (ISBN: 978-0201533774)

SECONDARY LITERATURE:
- Russell, S.; Norvig, P. (2016): Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Global Edition (Ed. 3), Addison Wesley, Boston (ISBN: 978-1292153964)

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

4

Share of e-learning in %

30

Semester hours per week

2.0

Planned teaching and learning method

The following methods are used:

- Lecture with discussion
- Interactive workshop

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

3

Name of lecturer

Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Millinger

Academic year

Key figure of the course/module

DPR.4

Type of course/module

integrated lecture

Type of course

Compulsory

Internship(s)

none