G5BAIM - Artificial Intelligence Methods

This course is run at the The University of Nottingham within the School of Computer Science & IT. The course is run by Graham Kendall (EMAIL : gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk)

Coursework

Current Coursework Assignment

This years assignment can be download from here. The dealine for this years coursework is 21st April 2004 at 15:30.

You must use the report template when you hand in your work.

The following papers may be of use/interest.

1. Darwen P. and Yao X. On evolving robust strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma, LNCS 956:276-292, 1995
2. Binner, J. and Kendall, G. Co-Evolving Neural Networks with Evolutionary Strategies : A New Application to Divisia Money. In proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2002 (IC-AI'02), CSREA Press. Arabnia H.R and Youngsong M. (eds), pp 884-889, ISBN : 1-892512-27-0
3. Fogel D. Evolving Behaviors in the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma, Evolutionary Computation 1(1):77-97 (This paper was available as hardcopy in the lecture given on 6th Feb 2003)

You might also want to take a look at these case study papers.

• Paper 1 (Chellapilla K, Fogel D. Anaconda Defeats Hoyle 6-0: A Case Study Competing an Evolved Checkers Program against Commercially Available Software, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2000 (CEC'02), pp 857-863)
  
  
• Paper 2 (text, figures1, figures2) (Chellapilla K. and Fogel D. Evolving Neural Networks to Play Checkers without
  Expert Knowledge,IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1999, Vol. 10:6, pp. 1382-1391)
  
  
• Paper 3 (text, figures, tables) (Chellapilla K. and Fogel D. Evolution, Neural Networks, Games, and Intelligence,
  Proc. IEEE, 1999, Vol. 87:9, Sept., pp. 1471-1496)

Previous Coursework Assignments

Academic Year 2002/2003

Assignment (word document) (Evolve an Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategy) (Report Template)

Academic Year 2001/2002

Assignment (word document) (Write an evolutionary or meta-heuristic algorithm that is able to minimise the given functions)

Associated Spreadsheet (which implements the functions so that you can check your figures)

Academic Year 2000/2001

Assignment (word document) (Write an Awari program that you play against others from the course)

Academic Year 1999/2000

Assignment (word document) (Solve the 8-puzzle game)

Academic Year 1999/2000

Assignment 1 (word document) (Chinese Room)

Assignment 2 (word document) (Neural Network : Perceptron)

Assignment 3 (word document) (Concept Learner Systems)

Academic Year 1999/2000

Assignment 1 (word document) (Maze Navigation as a Search)

Assignment 2 (word document) (Neural Network : Perceptron)

Assignment 3 (word document) (Genetic Algorithms : Crossover)

 

 Last Updated : 26/01/2002