| Course ID: | CSCI 4330/6330. 4 hours. |
| Course Title: | Artificial Intelligence and the Web |
Course
Description: | The application of artificial intelligence methodologies and
algorithms to problems involving the world wide web. Introduction
to problem-solving, knowledge representation, learning, and
reasoning techniques and exploration of how they are applied to
enable information provisioning, social networking, and service
provisioning on the web. |
| Oasis Title: | AI AND THE WEB |
| Pre or Corequisite: | CSCI 2720 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The students will learn innovative ways of designing efficient
and intelligent Web search engines, personalized Web browsers,
and how the Web can be used as the technology infrastructure for
enterprises. They will also become aware of AI problem-solving
techniques that could be applied elsewhere. This will benefit
students interested in pursuing research or a job in Web-related
or AI-related areas by providing them with the necessary background. |
| Topical Outline: | • Intelligent information retrieval – Web data mining and
clustering, text summarization, and natural language understanding
• Intelligent Web interfaces – User modeling and Web personalization
• Web knowledge representation – knowledge representation using
logic, theorem proving, and trust
• Social Networking on the Web
• Ontologies – reconciliation and automatic population using
machine learning
• Web services modeling and automatic composition – modeling
using logics, intelligent discovery and negotiation, and
automatic composition using planning
• Multi-agent frameworks for the web. |