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Commonsense Reasoning 2010/2011 |
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- Last updates:
- 14-12-2010: slides HC8
- 08-12-2010: Slides HC6, new correction
of reader.
- 06-12-2010: Slides HC5, reading HC 7-9, exercises WC 3-5.
- 01-12-2010: Slides HC4, reading HC6.
This is the course page of the
combined Computer Science /CAI course Commonsense Reasoning 2009/2010. The
information below will be continuously updated during period 2.
Course description:
See the study guide description for a general description of the course and the course schedule.
Prerequisite knowledge:
At the start of the course the student should have a knowledge of standard propositional and first-order predicate logic and elementary set theory as taught in Logica en Verzamelingen (logic and set theory), Logica voor Informatica (Logic for Computer Science) or an equivalent course.
- Reader Commonsense Reasoning, Henry Prakken, 2010/2011.
- The parts specified in the reader, Chapter 10, of the following articles, to be downloaded from the web:
- M. Shanahan, The event calculus explained. In M.J. Wooldridge and M. Veloso (eds.): Artificial Intelligence Today, Lecture Notes in AI 1600, pp. 409-430. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1999.
- J. Pearl, Embracing causality in default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence 35 (1988), pp. 259-271.
- P.J. Lucas, Symbolic diagnosis and its formalisation. The Knowledge Engineering Review 12 (1997), pp. 109-146.
- Educational software:
The examination of this course consists of two parts:
- Three mandatory exercises during working groups;
- A final exam.
Both the manadatory
exercises and the final exam are "open book but closed notebook": the
student is allowed to take the course reader and the articles listed below to
the exerices and exam, but the reader and articles must not contain any
additional notes, whether handwritten or other; neither is the use of any other
material during the exercises or exam allowed, unless announced otherwise at
this page.
The three mandatory exercises will cover the material specified below, while the final exam will cover
the following material:
- The course reader and the additional articles mentioned above, except the parts that are explicitly excluded in the reader or at this page.
- The above-listed educational software plus explanatory material.
- The contents of the lectures and working groups.
The final result of the course is determined as follows: average of the marks for the three mandatory exercises (20%) + mark for final exam (80%). For admission to the second-chance exam the original final result must be at least a 4. For the final result after the 2nd chance exam the mark for the final exam is replaced with the mark for the 2nd chance exam (so the average mark for the mandatory exercises also counts for the final result after the 2nd chance exam).
Topics of the lectures and working groups
The tables below contain the schedule, topics and discussed literature of the lectures and working groups. NB: the schedule may change if needed, so please check it before each lecture.
- Lectures (HC):
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lecture |
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topics |
slides |
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HC 1 |
Mon 22-11 |
Default logic 1: |
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HC 2 |
Wed 24-11 |
Default
logic 2: |
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HC 3 |
Mon 29-11 |
Default
logic 3: |
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HC 4 |
Wed 01-12 |
Circumscription |
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HC 5 |
Mon 06-12 |
Event
calculus |
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HC 6 |
Wed 08-12 |
Abstract
argumentation - semantics 1. |
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HC 7 |
Mon 13-12 |
Abstract
argumentation - semantics 2. |
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HC 8 |
Wed 15-12 |
Abstract
argumentation - proof theory. |
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HC 9 |
Mon 20-12 |
Structured
argumentation (1) |
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HC 10 |
Wed 22-12 |
Structured argumentation (2) |
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HC 11 |
Mon 10-01 |
Dialogue systems for argumentation (1) |
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HC 12 |
Wed 12-01 |
Dialogue systems for argumentation (2) |
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HC 13 |
Mon 17-01 |
Reasoning with causal information |
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HC 14 |
Wed 19-01 |
Course synthesis; question time |
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Working groups and mandatory exercises(WC)
NB: The mandatory exercises start at 09.00 and take maximally 40
minutes.
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Mandatory exercises (09.00-09.40) |
Exercises (topics) |
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WC 1 |
Wed 01-12 |
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All exercises Sections 2.1 + 2.3.1 |
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WC 2 |
Wed 08-12 |
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Al exercises Sections 2.2, 2.3.2, 2.4 |
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WC 3 |
Wed 15-12 |
On HC 1-5 |
All exercises Ch. 4 |
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WC 4 |
Wed 22-12 |
On HC 6-8 |
All exercises Ch. 5 + exercises 6.5.1-6.5.5 |
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WC 5 |
Wed 12-01<TD |
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Exercises 6.5.6-6.5.11, all exercises Ch. 7 |
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WC 6 |
Wed 19-01 |
On HC 9-12 |
(causal reasoning) |
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WC 7 |
Wed 26-01 |
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(practicing with exam + question time) |