Introduction to

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Distance Learning

Nguyễ
Nguyễn Việ
Việt Cườ
Cường,
ng, M.Sc.
M.Sc.
Posts & Telecommunication Institute of Technology
Orientation

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 Orientation

Website

Objectives

Course materials

Distance Learning

Student work
– Assignments
– Examination

Grading policy

Academic honesty

Book coverage

Q&A

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 Website

About me:
http://www.ptithcm.edu.vn/~NguyenVietCuong/

Web:
http://www.ptithcm.edu.vn/~NguyenVietCuong/AI-DL.htm
– syllabus
– latest grades
– presentation slides

Email: cuong.ngv@ptithcm.edu.vn
cuong.ngv@gmail.com

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 Objectives

Search
– State Space
– Blind Search
– Heuristic Search
– Optimal Search
– Advanced Search
– Constraint Processing

Machine Learning
– Nearest Neighbors
– Decision Trees

Knowledge Representation
– Propositional & First Order Logic
– Rule-based systems.

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 Course materials

Textbooks
– S. Russell, P. Norvig
Artificial Intelligence. A modern approach,
2rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2003
– Michael Negnevitsky,
Artificial Intelligence, A Guide to Intelligent System,
Addison-Wesley Pub. Comp. , 2002.

Reference
– Nguyễn Việt Cường,
Giáo trình Nhập môn Trí tuệ nhân tạo, PTIT, 2002.
– David Poole, A. Mackworth, R. Goebel, biên dịch Trần Đức
Quang, Trí
Trí tuệ
tu tính toá
toán: Tiếp
Ti p cận
n bằng
ng logic,
logic tập 1&2, NXB
Thống kê 2002.
– G.F. Luger & W. A. Stubblefield, biên dịch Bùi Xuân Toại &
Trương Gia Việt, Trí
Trí tuệ
tu nhân tạoo. Các cấu
u trú
trúc & chiến
chi n lược
lư c
giải
gi i quyết
quy t vấn
n đề, NXB Thống kê, 2001
– Đỗ Trung Tuấn, Trí
Trí tuệ
tu nhân tạoo. NXB Giáo Dục, 1998.

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 Distance Learning

First Session (180 minutes)
– Orientation
– Overview of Artificial Intelligence

Offline Session
– Self study
– Forum for questions & answers

Online Session (135 minutes)
– Chat for questions & answers

Last Session (360 minutes)
– First Review:
• Search
– Second Review:
• Machine Learning &
• Knowledge Representation.

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 Student work

The students are encouraged to spend a

minimum of ten hours outside the class
in preparation for each hour spent in
class

Assignments ought to be done outside
class.

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 Assignments

Send your assignments to my email
cuong.ngv@ptithcm.edu.vn
and c/c:
c/c: cuong.ngv@gmail.com

Email subject, for example:
AI-
AI-DL07

To name your assignment file: Ch1-

Ch1-HoaNT.doc

In your assignment have Name, Student ID, class

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 Examinations

Final exam: on paper

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 Grading policy

Grade percentage
– Assignments 20%
– Attendance and Activity 10%
– Final Exam 70%

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 Academic honesty

The Academic Honesty Policy:

“Students are expected to complete all materials
(exams & exercises) on their own
This does not prevent the student from seeking
assistance from the instructor or other students

Copying of assignments or cheating on exams will

result in dismissal from this course and the student
may be expelled from PTIT

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Q&A

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The End

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