MCS6513 Adv Topics in IS

S02 MCS 6513 Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems

Chan-Jin Chung

Lawrence Technological University

Math and Computer Science Department

Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite : MCS 5503 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Lecture Room: E200 or CW21
Lab. : Robotics Lab (CW21) for Robotics Project;
Instructor: Chan-Jin Chung, Ph.D.

Office Room: Science 112
Phone: (248) 204-3504
Fax: (248) 204-3518 (this fax number is for the whole building and senders should be sure to place instructor's name on the fax)
Dept. Secretary: (248) 204-3560
Math/CS Drop Box: in front of S120 door.
Email: CHUNG@ltu.edu
LTU webpage at http://www3.ltu.edu/~chung (syllabus, announcements, lecture notes, etc.)
Blackboard V6 at http://www6.ltu.edu
Office Hours: check out http://www3.ltu.edu/~chung/ and click on Schedule

Required Text: N/A, project by project

Recommended Text:

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems, Michael Negnevitsky, S352 pages 1st edition (September 15, 2001) Addison Wesley Publishing; ISBN: 0201711591, downloads from book website
Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, ISBN 1-55860-467-7, March 1998, Nils J. Nilsson
Artificial Intelligence, 3/e, 1992, 750 pp., ISBN, 0-201-53377-4, Patrick Henry Winston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Course Objectives

Introduction to advanced topics in Artificial Intelligence and Adaptability theories and techniques
Applying advanced theories and techniques to the development of practical Intelligent Systems as class projects
To plan MSCS capstone project I and II
Publishing papers

Suggested Projects

From WCCI2002 competions: http://www.wcci2002.org/ http://ace.essex.ac.uk/algoval/wcci/CompetitionIndex.html
Web based Intelligent University Class Scheduler using Evolutionary Computation, in Aug. 2002, Begium, http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/ttg/patat-index.html
RoboCup 2002 Soccer Simulation League: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/%7Efruit/orga/rc02/index.html. This project must be demonstrated during RoboFest 2002.
Khepera Robot Soccer for FIRA 2002 during WorldCup Soccer 2002 in Korea/Japan. This project must be demonstrated during RoboFest 2002. http://www.fira.net/ http://www.fira.net/fira/f2001/index.html
Preparations for Educational Robotics, ICEE-2002 in May 2002, in England. http://induce.cc.umist.ac.uk/icee2002/

Each student is required to select two projects (Major, Minor) from the above suggested projects.

Development Model, Schedule, Deliverables, and Assigned Points

See below table in which the concept of spiral model is being adopted. All the deliverables may be posted on the instructors homepage.

Week	Deliverables	Points
1st	Project proposals & descriptions due
2nd	Project requirements specifications	10
4th	First demos of the prototypes	20
5th	Final requirement specs and design documents due	5
8th	Second demos	25
11th	Third demos	30
15th	Public presentation if necessary and field trial; Delivery of the project executables, source, and documentations	100

It is each student's responsibility to make an appointment with the instructor for the demo. Please note that Fri. 4-12 is the Last day to withdraw.

Also, please note that we are meeting at DSC on Feb. 21 in the evening for a robot demonstrations.

Grading: Total 200 points

Grades will be based on the results of the above activities (190 points) as well as 10 points by the instructor considering the following factors: creativity, teamwork, scientific finding, educational value, userfriendlyness, usability, robustness, new technologies used, etc.
No I (incomplete) grade will be given.
Must submit contribution percentage for each individual if the project is done by a group.

This score will be translated into a letter grade based upon the percentages given below.

A	90-100%	C+	75-78%
A-	89%	C	70-74%
B+	85-88%	C-	69%
B	80-84%
B-	79%

Intellectual Property and Copyrights

All the deliverables may be reused/modified/upgraded by another students and/or instructor later on for educational purposes only. The instructor will make sure to give appropriate credits and acknowledgements to the previous students.