Spring 2009 Course Outline and Lecture Notes

Course Outline and Work-in-progress Schedule:

Details will be filled in as the semester progresses. The readings will be updated as well. Dates, readings etc. past the first week are tentative! Sometimes links to articles do go down temporarily. If you can't get to my link, try the citeseer web site , which usually has copies.

Date Topic Readings Notes

1/20 Overview. Class requirements.

1/22-2/10 Advanced Search Techniques: Constructive search, Local search, etc. Hoos and Stutzle, Chapters 1 and 2 Search in PDF

2/12 Project proposals due

2/12-2/26 Population Based Search: ACO, GAs, GP Hoos and Stutzle, Chapter 2,
Whitley article, Statistics and Computing (4):65-85, 1994.
Genetic Programming Tutorial Population Based Search in PDF

2/19 Assignment 1 due

3/3-3/31 Evaluation and experiment design for AI. Evaluation in PDF

3/5 Assignment 2 due

3/12 Midterm 1 Advanced search and population based search material

3/26 Project Progress Reports

4/2-4/16 Data Mining Russell and Norvig Ch. 18
A.K. Jain, M.N. Murty, P.J. Flynn, "Data Clustering: A Review", ACM Computing Surveys, 31(3):264--323 through section 5.4, page number 280 (ignore section 5.1)
R. Agrawal and R. Srikant, "Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules", In Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 1994.
Data Mining in PDF

4/16 Experiment Designs Due

4/21 Class cancelled

4/23 Robotics Robotics in PDF

4/30 Midterm 2

5/5 Project presentations
Geoffrey Sewell
"Database Security through Clustering"
Chris Mullins
"Keyboard Layouts: is QWERTY really substandard?"
Doug Hains
"Evaluating Algorithms for the DTSP"
Nick Parrish
"Improving Image Retrieval In The SeeAsYou Biomimetic Vision System Using Term Discrimination and Compound Term Processing"

5/5-5/7 Project presentations
Zach Cashero
Learning Frequent Trajectory Patterns for a BCI-Controlled Wheelchair
Jason Remington
"Supplementing Netflix Data in Collabortive Filtering"
Nathan Lindzey

Date	Topic	Readings	Notes
1/20	Overview. Class requirements.
1/22-2/10	Advanced Search Techniques: Constructive search, Local search, etc.	Hoos and Stutzle, Chapters 1 and 2	Search in PDF
2/12	Project proposals due
2/12-2/26	Population Based Search: ACO, GAs, GP	Hoos and Stutzle, Chapter 2, Whitley article, Statistics and Computing (4):65-85, 1994. Genetic Programming Tutorial	Population Based Search in PDF
2/19	Assignment 1 due
3/3-3/31	Evaluation and experiment design for AI.		Evaluation in PDF
3/5	Assignment 2 due
3/12	Midterm 1	Advanced search and population based search material
3/26	Project Progress Reports
4/2-4/16	Data Mining	Russell and Norvig Ch. 18 A.K. Jain, M.N. Murty, P.J. Flynn, "Data Clustering: A Review", ACM Computing Surveys, 31(3):264--323 through section 5.4, page number 280 (ignore section 5.1) R. Agrawal and R. Srikant, "Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules", In Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 1994.	Data Mining in PDF
4/16	Experiment Designs Due
4/21	Class cancelled
4/23	Robotics		Robotics in PDF
4/30	Midterm 2
5/5	Project presentations	Geoffrey Sewell "Database Security through Clustering" Chris Mullins "Keyboard Layouts: is QWERTY really substandard?" Doug Hains "Evaluating Algorithms for the DTSP" Nick Parrish "Improving Image Retrieval In The SeeAsYou Biomimetic Vision System Using Term Discrimination and Compound Term Processing"
5/5-5/7	Project presentations	Zach Cashero Learning Frequent Trajectory Patterns for a BCI-Controlled Wheelchair Jason Remington "Supplementing Netflix Data in Collabortive Filtering" Nathan Lindzey