Detailed Description

The module is partly based on the first three sections of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (3rd edition) by Russell and Norvig. The indicative content from the book is as follows: Introduction: What is Al? History of Al and the state of the art; Agents: An introduction to agents. their behaviours and structure; Searching: Problem solving by searching, heuristics, local search and optimisation and adversarial search; Constraint satisfaction problems: defining and solving CSPs; Logic: Propositional logic, first-order logic, knowledge representation.
In addition to this the module will feature introductions to other Al techniques including neural networks, machine learning and nature inspired methods.