COMP8620

Advanced Topics in Artificial intelligence

Credit
6 units
Catalogue year
2027
Recorded offerings
Second Semester

Course information

This is an advanced postgraduate course that offers students the opportunity to study a special thematic area within the discipline of Artificial Intelligence. The topics will vary from year to year in response to emerging theoretical and practical issues in the discipline, as well as the research interests and expertise of academics and sessional staff. They will be drawn from the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, and could include (but not limited to) the following topics: Planning, Scheduling, Games, Search, Reasoning (constraint-based, model-based, spatial, temporal), Knowledge representation, Decision-making under uncertainty, Integrated planning and learning, Reinforcement learning, and Robotics.Please see the class website for the specific topics covered in a particular semester.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed COMP6320 or COMP3620. Additional Prerequisite courses for the Advanced Topic will be listed on the SoCo website (Special Topics in Computing page ) when the course topic is announced. Students who meet the pre-requisites can request a permission code following the instructions for Enrolling in CSS courses . Incompatible with COMP4620.

You will need to contact the School of Computing to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Gain both a wide and a deep knowledge of the topic(s) taught in the current instance of the course.

Navigate through, and critically examine, the scientific literature on the taught topic(s).

Plan and execute project work and/or a piece of research and scholarship in the advanced topic(s)

Reflect on current approaches of the advanced topic(s) and evaluate their limitations

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