AI Key Concepts - Revisited

In this lecture we will briefly review key AI concepts met in last year's course. We will summarise how they work and highlight how they are employed in topics we will meet later in this course.

Please refer to last year's course and recommended books for full details.

 
• Problems and Search
  • Problem Definition
  • Searching
  • Heuristic Search
• Knowledge Representation and Search
  • And-Or Graphs
  • AO* Algorithm
• Means-Ends Analysis
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Why are these topics important?
• Further reading
• Exercises