Methods of AI - Practice Sessions

A course of the Cognitive Science program of the University of Osnabrück in the winter term 2002/2003

News

29.10.2002: On Friday (01.10.2002) the practice session will take place from 13:00 (st) - 14:00 (room as usual), due to the fact that the hearings for the Philosophy professorship will take place on Thursday and Friday.

05.11.2002: The deadline of the second assignment is extended to Friday, November 15^th 2002.

08.11.2002: The first programming problem will be online on Monday, November 11^th 2002.

11.11.2002: The deadline for the first programming assignment is extended to Friday, November 29^th 2002.

02.12.2002: The midterm examination will take place on Friday 06^th of December, 2002. There will be two groups:

First group: 12:00 - 14:00, Room: 31/149 and 31/150

Second group: 14:00 - 16:00, Room: 31/149 and 31/150

More information is available on the slides of the 6^th practice session.

10.12.2002: The deadline of the fourth assignment is extended to Monday, December 16^th 2002.

30.01.2003: The test exam is online.

Organization

Teaching

Lecture Ute Schmid, Thursday 10-12, Room: 35/E16
Practice Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Friday 12-14, Room: 41/112
Tutorials Collin Rogowski , Thursday 12-14, Room: 31/423 (24.10.2002: 41/B10)
Tobias Widdra Wednesday 14-16, Room 41/105 (23.10.2002: 41/B10)
Bernd Pachur Tuesday 16-18, Room 01/114 (17.12.2002: 12/E16)

Syllabus

The syllabus contains information concerning the overall organization of the course, the description of the course, a tentative schedule, regulations concerning the grading procedure, and further important information. Notice that the schedule is considered to be tentative, i.e. it can be the case that modifications must be applied due to time constraints and other unpredictable changes.

Syllabus (pdf)

The MVC

The MVC is used to submit solutions for programming problems and to write online examinations (midterm and final). Please, register at the MVC in order to make sure that we know that you intend to participate in the course. Here is the procedure to get an account at the MVC:

(1) http://tom.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/mvc/
(2) Use your username from your RZ account
(3) Select "ki_2002"
(4) Password: "add_myself"
(5) Type your name and your e-mail address of the RZ
(6) Click on NEW_USER
(7) You will receive an e-mail specifying your password
(8) Use this password to log in

Important: After you created your account please send an e-mail to your preferred tutor.

Slides from Practice Sessions and Tutorials

Here, presentations can be found that were used in the practice sessions. Furthermore, slides from the tutorials can be downloaded. The material is considered either as a further deepening and a repetition of the topics of the lecture, a discussion of further aspects of a particular field, or a possibility to add material concerning helpful tools and techniques.

Practice Session 1 (pdf)
Practice Session 2 (pdf)
Practice Session 3 (pdf)
Practice Session 4 (pdf)
Practice Session 5 (pdf)
Practice Session 6 (pdf)
Practice Session 7 (pdf)
Practice Session 8 (pdf)
Practice Session 9 (pdf)
Practice Session 10 (pdf)
Practice Session 11/1 (pdf)
Practice Session 11/2 (pdf)

Assignments and Examinations

Assignments

The assignments are intended to deepen the topics discussed and examined in the lecture. Each assignment contains a deadline for submission (the default case are the practice sessions on Fridays 2 pm).

Assignment 1 (pdf) (Deadline: 01.11.2002)
Assignment 2 (pdf) (Deadline: 15.11.2002)
Assignment 3 (pdf) (Deadline: 22.11.2002)
Assignment 4 (pdf) (Deadline: 16.12.2002)
Assignment 5 (pdf) (Deadline: 10.01.2003)
Assignment 6 (pdf) (Deadline: 17.01.2003)
Assignment 7 (pdf) (Deadline: 24.01.2003)
Assignment 8 (pdf) (Deadline: 31.01.2003)

Solutions for some Problems of the Assignment Block

Some - though not all - solutions to exercises in the assignments will be placed here on the web. The reason for the incompleteness of the solutions is due to time constraints.

Solutions for Assignment 1 (pdf)
Solutions for Assignment 2 (pdf)
Solutions for Assignment 4 (pdf)
Solutions for Assignment 5 (pdf)
Solutions for Assignment 6 (pdf)

Programming Problems

Programming assignments should be submitted using the MVC. Each assignment contains a deadline for submission.

Programming assignment 1 (pdf) (Deadline: 29.11.2002)
Programming assignment 2 (pdf) (Deadline: 17.01.2003)
Programming assignment 3 (pdf) (Deadline: 16.02.2003)

Examinations

Midterm

The midterm examination will take place on Friday December 6^th 2002. There will be two groups.

First group: 12:00 - 14:00, Room: 31/149 and 31/150
Second group: 14:00 - 16:00, Room: 31/149 and 31/150

More information concerning the midterm can be found on the slides of the 6^th practice session.

The results of the midterm will be available on Friday, December 13^th, 2002. (You should not be superstitious...)

Final Examination

The final examination will take place on Friday, February 7^th 2003. There will be two groups (as usual).

First group: 12:00 - 14:00, Rooms: 31/149 and 31/150
Second group: 14:00 - 16:00, Rooms: 31/149 and 31/150

Technically, the final will be similar to the midterm. We will use the MVC and the test will be a multiple choice test. You will get approx. 30-35 questions that need to be answered in 60 minutes. The covered topics include everything that was discussed in this course except temporal and spatial reasoning.

In the case you did not sign up in the list of participants, yet, please, send me a note.