Logics for Artificial Intelligence

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Credits
6
Types
Elective
Requirements
This subject has not requirements, but it has got previous capacities
Department
URV;CS
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Introduction to the basic mechanisms of knowledge representation and reasoning using the formal tools of Mathematical Logic.

Teachers

Person in charge

  • Antonio Moreno Ribas ( )

Weekly hours

Theory
2
Problems
1
Laboratory
0
Guided learning
0
Autonomous learning
7

Competences

Generic Technical Competences

Generic

  • CG1 - Capability to plan, design and implement products, processes, services and facilities in all areas of Artificial Intelligence.
  • CG3 - Capacity for modeling, calculation, simulation, development and implementation in technology and company engineering centers, particularly in research, development and innovation in all areas related to Artificial Intelligence.

Technical Competences of each Specialization

Academic

  • CEA13 - Capability to understand advanced techniques of Modeling , Reasoning and Problem Solving, and to know how to design, implement and apply these techniques in the development of intelligent applications, services or systems.

Professional

  • CEP3 - Capacity for applying Artificial Intelligence techniques in technological and industrial environments to improve quality and productivity.
  • CEP5 - Capability to design new tools and new techniques of Artificial Intelligence in professional practice.

Transversal Competences

Information literacy

  • CT4 - Capacity for managing the acquisition, the structuring, analysis and visualization of data and information in the field of specialisation, and for critically assessing the results of this management.

Reasoning

  • CT6 - Capability to evaluate and analyze on a reasoned and critical way about situations, projects, proposals, reports and scientific-technical surveys. Capability to argue the reasons that explain or justify such situations, proposals, etc..

Objectives

  1. Understand the basic tools of Mathematical Logic and their use as a knowledge representacion and reasoning mechanism within an intelligent system.
    Related competences: CT4, CEA13, CG3,
  2. Know how to apply the tools of Mathematical Logic to solve specific problems.
    Related competences: CT6, CEA13, CEP3, CEP5, CG1,

Contents

  1. First-Order Logic
    Use of first-order logic as a mechanism for knowledge representation and reasoning.
    Formalisation. Natural Deduction. Resolution. Model Theory.
  2. Logic Programming
    Logic programming: facts and rules. Backwards reasoning. Cut operator. Negation as failure.
  3. Description logics.
    Description logics. Language: concepts, rols and constants. Operators to define complex concepts. Reasoning mechanisms.
  4. Inheritance networks.
    Defeasible reasoning on inheritance networks. Positive and negative links and paths. Admissible links and paths. Credulous extensions. Types of reasoning.
  5. Default reasoning.
    Closed world reasoning. Circumscription. Default logic. Autoepistemic logic.

Activities

Activity Evaluation act


Lectures

Lectures that cover the theoretical content of the course.
  • Theory: Lectures
Objectives: 1
Contents:
Theory
30h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
0h

Problem sessions

Discussion of exercises on the topics covered in the course
  • Problems: Problem sessions
Objectives: 2
Contents:
Theory
0h
Problems
15h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
0h

Exercises

Exercises solved in class during the semester
Objectives: 2
Week: 1
Type: problems exam
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
40h

Final exam

Theoretical exam
Objectives: 1
Week: 15 (Outside class hours)
Type: final exam
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
65h

Teaching methodology

Teaching methodologies:
* Lectures.
* Sessions with student participation.
* Autonomous work.
* Tutoring sessions.
* Preparation of evaluation tests.

Evaluation methodology

Final exam: 50%.
Individual exercises: 50%.

Bibliography

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Complementary:

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Previous capacities

It is not necessary to have taken an introductory course on Logic.