Introduction to Agents:Structure of Intelligent Agents – Problem Solving Agents- Formulating Problems
Overview of Uninformed Searching Strategies – Informed Search Methods. Game Playing as Search. Knowledge Based Agents Representation – Logics- First Order Logic – Reflex Agents Building a Knowledge Base – General Ontology -Inference – Logical Recovery. Planning Agents – Planning in Situational Calculus – Representation of Planning – Partial Order Planning- Practical Planners – Conditional Planning.
Agents Acting Under Uncertainty – Probability Notation – Bayes’ Rule. Probabilistic Reasoning – Belief Networks – Utility Theory Decision Network- Value of Information- Learning Agents – Learning from Observations –Knowledge in Learning -Case Studies on Applications of AI.