COMP316-08A Resources

This page contains the resources that were made available on the COMP316-08A Moodle course page. The original URL was http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=1125

Information

Welcome to COMP316-08A! The weekly schedule shown below gives a rough outline of how the course will proceed. Slides and assignments will be posted here as the course progresses. Please note that there are 15 weeks in total, with two weeks of official teaching recess and one additional week with no lectures.

The due dates for the six programming assignments are:

Wednesday, March 12 (midday): Assignment 1 due
Wednesday, March 26 (midday): Assignment 2 due
Wednesday, April 9 (midday): Assignment 3 due
Wednesday, May 7 (midday): Assignment 4 due
Wednesday, May 28 (midday): Assignment 5 due
Wednesday, June 11 (midday): Assignment 6 due

There will be a three-hour open-book exam.

Resources

25 February - 2 March

Uninformed search
• Slides on Uninformed
• Assignment 1: Uninformed Search
• Search applet from AISpace project file

3 March - 9 March

Informed search
• Slides on informed search
• Example of graph search based on A* with inconsistent heuristic

10 March - 16 March

Adversarial search
• Slides on adversarial search
• Assignment 2: GA mania and alpha beta pruning

17 March - 23 March

Propositional logic
• Slides on propositional logic PDF document
• Info on how Assignment 1 has been marked Resource

24 March - 30 March

First-order logic
• Slides on first-order logic PDF document
• Assignment 3: Logic

31 March - 6 April

Reasoning in first-order logic
• Slides on inference in FOL PDF document
• Info on how Assignment 2 has been marked Resource

7 April - 13 April

Representing uncertainty
• Slides on probability theory PDF document
• Assignment 4: Working with a joint probability distribution

14 April - 20 April

First week of teaching recess

21 April - 27 April

Second week of teaching recess

28 April - 4 May

Bayesian networks
• Slides on Bayesian Networks PDF document
• Info on how Assignment 3 has been marked Resource Inference in Bayesian networks
• Slides on Inference in Bayesian Networks PDF document
• Bayes net applet from AI space project file

5 May - 11 May

Inference in Bayesian networks
• Assignment 5: Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks
• BayesNet.java text file
• Burglary network for Bayes net applet file Rational decisions
• Slides on Rational Decisions PDF document
• Choice of transport decision network for Bayes net applet file

12 May - 18 May

No lectures

19 May - 25 May

Inductive learning
• Slides on Inductive Learning PDF document

26 May - 1 June

Knowledge in learning
• Slides on knowledge in learning PDF document
• Version Space Learning Assignment
• Info on how Assignment 4 has been marked Resource Neural networks
• Slides on neural networks
• Applet for perceptron learning file

2 June - 8 June

Neural networks
Natural language processing
• Slides on language processing
• Web site for Sequitur algorithm file
• Exam preparation