? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 9  ? Acronym : INF-3-KRE

The module looks at languages and techniques for encoding, sharing, and reasoning with information represented in symbolic fashion. It also covers methodologies important to the development and application of distributed knowledge based systems, and introduces agent systems.

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Home subject area

Artificial Intelligence, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date Start End Room Area Additional Information 10/01/2006 16:00 17:00 Forrest Hill, Room A9/11

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Tuesday 16:10 17:00 Central Lecture Friday 16:10 17:00 Central

In addition to specific problem-solving and programming skills for knowledge representation and engineering, you will learn how to evaluate, critically, different styles of work and how to extract the key contributions and hypotheses in a particular approach. You will also have the opportunity to recognise the gaps between theoretical developments and practical applications, and to search and read the literature.

Written Examination 75%
Assessed Assignments 25%

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST May 1 - 1 hour(s) 45 minutes

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mr Neil McGillivray
Tel : (0131 6)50 2701
Email : Neil.McGillivray@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Colin Stirling
Email : cps@dcs.ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/

School Website : http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/