MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEN3002 Artificial Intelligence Fall 3 0 3 6
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Assoc. Prof. FETHULLAH KARABİBER
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. NAFİZ ARICA
Prof. Dr. SÜREYYA AKYÜZ
Course Objectives: This course aims to provide:
• a deep understanding of various topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI): agents, problem solving by searching, logic and reasoning, planning, probability and utility theories, learning, etc.
• an introductory level understanding of AI’s application areas in bioinformatics.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Gains a knowledge of topics and their definitions in AI.
2. Develops an ability to design an intelligent agent from start to finish (the knowledge base, the inference mechanism, searching, handling uncertainty,...).
3. Develops an ability to program such an agent from start to finish.
4. Gains an understanding of solving problems by searching, logic and reasoning.
5. Defines application areas of AI in bioinformatics.

Course Content

This course is an introductory level course of artificial intelligence. The course will cover the theory, and computational methods of artificial intelligence. Basic concepts include representation of knowledge and computational methods for reasoning. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Bioinformatics will be studied.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) Intelligent Agents
3) Solving Problems by Searching
4) Informed Search and Exploration
5) Constraint Satisfaction Problems
6) Adversarial Search
7) Logical Agents
8) First-Order Logic
9) Inference in First-Order Logic
10) Uncertainty
11) Probabilistic Reasoning
12) Making Simple Decisions
13) Learning from Observations
14) Applications of AI in Bioinformatics

Sources

Course Notes: Course notes will be given weekly.
References: 1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall; 3rd edition, 2009.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance % 0
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments 2 % 10
Presentation % 0
Project 1 % 25
Seminar % 0
Midterms 1 % 25
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 40
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 35
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 65
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 0 0 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 14 7 98
Presentations / Seminar 0 0 0
Project 0 0 0
Homework Assignments 0 0 0
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0
Midterms 1 2 2
Paper Submission 0
Jury 0
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
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