Instructor: Prof. J Genetti
Office Hours: 208B Chapman TR 2:00-3:00 or by appointment
Phone/Email: 474-5737 / ffjdg @ uaf . edu
Class web page: http://www.cs.uaf.edu/2008/spring/cs405
Prerequisites: CS311
Department policies: http://www.cs.uaf.edu/cs/Policies.html
Textbooks:
Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving by Luger
Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI by Fogel (1 per group)

Topics:

• Problem Formulation
• Brute-force Searching
• Heuristic Searching
• Game Searching
• Evolutionary Programming
• Neural Networks
• Propositional Logic
• First Order Logic
• Inference Rules
• Fuzzy Logic

Exams:
There will be a take-home mid-term exam due Thursday March 6 at 5pm and an open-book in-class final exam on Thursday May 8 from 1:00-3:00pm. Each exam is worth 25% of your final grade.

Homework:
Homework will be assigned several times during the semester. This will make up 10% of your final grade.

Project:
Each student must complete a project worth 40% of his/her final grade. 405 students will replicate/verify the results from the Blondie24 book. 605 students must propose (either solo or as a 2-person team) using a game other than checkers (e.g. go, backgammon, chess, bridge, hearts/spades, reversi/othello, boggle, ...).

Grading Policy:
Final grades will be assigned based on the following percentage intervals: A+ [95%,100%], A [90%,95%), A- [85%,90%), B+ [80%,85%), B [75%,80%), B- [70%,75%), C+ [65%,70%), C [60%,65%), C- [55%,60%), D+ [50%,55%), D [45%,50%), D- [40%,45%), F [0%,40%).