LEARNING OUTCOMES

The goal of the course is to provide the foundations of knowledge-based intelligent autonomous agents.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course introduces the languages and the techniques through which intelligent agents can operate autonomously on a deductive basis. The aim of the course is to provide students with the capability of formalizing domains of interest in order to treat them in the context of autonomous intelligent agents, with specific reference to propositional logics, first-order logics, description logics, and automated planning languages. The main result is the student's ability to frame the problems in a formal way and abstract their main features in a specification which makes computationally feasible to implement autonomous agents.

PREREQUISITES

Some preliminary knowledge of combinatorics, algebra and theoretical computer science are useful for a better understanding of the course material.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures (possobly recorded) for the theory part;  practical sessions with the teacher to solve assigned exercises (possibly online)

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Propositional logic: syntax, semantics, propositional knowledge bases, normal forms, inference procedures.

First-Order Logic: representation, syntax and semantics, knowledge engineering, inference procedures.

Classical Planning: definition, PDDL language, examples, planning as state-space search.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig - Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach (third edition) - Prentice Hall