1. CS5201 Intelligent Systems (2 unit) Semester II Lecturer: Adrian O’Riordan Contact: email is a.oriordan@cs.ucc.ie, office is 312, Kane Buildinga.oriordan@cs.ucc.ie Lectures: 24 in total Tuesday and Thursday @12:00 Practical Workin PF1 also Course Webpage: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~adrian/cs5201.html

2. Objectives and Prerequisites Objectives: To become familiar with the processes and technologies used in the construction of intelligent software systems. The focus will be on fundamentals of subject. The technologies covered in semester II will include artificial neural networks, knowledge based systems, machine learning and data mining. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of computing including programming concepts; Concepts from Semester I.

3. Course Details Teaching methods: notes will on slides or handouts. Reading assignments will be also given during the year. Assignments and exercises will be placed on the course webpage. No textbook covers all the material exactly. See the list of relevant books later on.

4. Course Overview for Semester II (Semester I coverd Rule Based Systems, Fuzzy Systems, Uncertainty Management, Genetic Algorithms and Programming, and Game Theory) Artificial Neural Networks (9 lectures) early work (McCulloch/Pitts; Minsky) Perceptron and Adaline Recurrent Networks (Hopfield networks) Self Organisation (SOM) Multilayer Perceptron (Backprop and Feedforward) Applications

5. Course Overview (continued) Knowledge Based Systems (8 lectures) knowledge representation frames expert systems knowlege engineering (elicitation) Learning and Data Mining (5 lectures) intro. machine learning data mining intelligent information retrieval

6. Practical Component Neural Network Simulation Machine Learning Tools

7. AI Textbooks to Read/Browse Note there are also many excellent book available on specific topics such as neural networks but these are not listed here (see webpage). Negnevitsky, Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley, 2002. Russell and Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2003. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann 1998. Ginsberg, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann 1993. Stefik, Introduction to Knowledge Systems, Morgan Kaufmann 1995. Rich and Knight, Artificial Intelligennce, 2nd ed., 1990.