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Intelligenza Artificiale (Artificial Intelligence), Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
Francesco Amigoni
francesco.amigoni@polimi.it
http://home.dei.polimi.it/amigoni/IntelligenzaArtificiale.html
Knowledge Areas that contain topics and learning outcomes covered in the course
Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit
Intelligent Systems/Fundamental Issues 8
Intelligent Systems/Basic Search Strategies 18
Intelligent Systems/Basic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 12
Intelligent Systems/Advanced Search 6
Intelligent Systems/Advanced Representation and Reasoning 6
Total Hours of Coverage
Where does the course fit in your curriculum
Students usually take the course in the first year of the MSc program in computer engineering.
Usually around 100 students take the course each year. The course is not compulsory. There are no formal
prerequisites. However, some familiarity with logics and computer science is strongly suggested.
What is covered in the course
• INTRODUCTION TO AI. Historical outline of the discipline. Fundamental concepts. Main research areas
and application fields.
• PROBLEM SOLVING AND SEARCH. State spaces and search methods. Non-informed and informed
search strategies. Constraint satisfaction problems. Games and adversarial search.
• LOGIC AND REASONING. The use of propositional and first order logic for the representation of
knowledge. Knowledge-based reasoning as logical deduction. Inference procedures (forward chaining,
backward chaining, resolution).
• PLANNING. Plan formation and execution. The STRIPS model. Search in plan spaces.
• FOUNDATIONS OF AI. Some critical concepts and philosophical problems of AI.
What is the format of the course
The course is face-to-face and covers 50 hours, which are organized in 30 hours with instructor and 20 hours with
teaching assistants for exercise practice.
How are students assessed
Students are assessed by a single final exam. This is in line with most of the courses in Italian universities. The
estimated effort for preparing the final exam is about 100 hours.
Course textbooks and materials
Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 2010.
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