CIS 561 Syllabus

No.
Week Of
Topic(s)
Reading
Notes 
1
1/26
Course nformation and introduction
 Intelligent agents
1, 2
1/30 Last day to add/drop 
2
2/2
Overview of search
informed search, heuristic functions, A*
3.1 - 3.7
4.1 - 4.2
Supplemental reading: 1, 2

3
2/9

Resource-bouned heuristic search
4.3 - 4.6
Supplemental reading: 3, 4, 5

4
2/16
Continue

No class on 2/16, Tuesday. Follow Mon schedule
5
2/23
Constraint satisfaction problems
5

6
3/2
Reasoning with uncertainty

13.1-13.6

7
3/9
Midterm


   
 
8
3/16
Spring Break

No Class
9
3/23
Probabilistic reasoning
14.1 - 14.5,
14.7

10
3/30
Probabilistic reasoning, continue


11
4/6
Decision making 16
4/10 Last day to withdraw
12
4/13
Learning from observation 18
13
4/20
Learning from observation, continue


Monday no class
14
4/27
Statistical learning / presentation
20

15
5/4
Presentations


5/11
Presentations
Last class  on Tuesday, 5/12


Final Exam: Tuesday, May 19, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM