The main objective of the PPAI semianr is to build capacity of young professionals to investigate, identify, demonstrate and promote Artificial Intelligence (Al) techniques for industrial applications. The seminar offers an extensive in-depth vision of actual Industrial Applications in the Spain and worldwide. Applications of Al in industry can dramatically increase agility, speed and quality of the design, implementation and the control in industrial processes. However, currently there is no systematic research and training approach towards implementation of Al techniques in European industry.
The objective is to promote cross-fertilising Al techniques with other scientific fields applied today in industry.
The seminar programme will include invited seminars and conferences, writing papers workshops, complementary training, visits.
Teachers
Person in charge
Ulises Cortés García (
)
Others
Javier Vazquez Salceda (
)
Weekly hours
Theory
2
Problems
0
Laboratory
0
Guided learning
0.08
Autonomous learning
4
Competences
Generic Technical Competences
Generic
CG1 - Capability to plan, design and implement products, processes, services and facilities in all areas of Artificial Intelligence.
Technical Competences of each Specialization
Professional
CEP3 - Capacity for applying Artificial Intelligence techniques in technological and industrial environments to improve quality and productivity.
CEP4 - Capability to design, write and report about computer science projects in the specific area of ??Artificial Intelligence.
CEP5 - Capability to design new tools and new techniques of Artificial Intelligence in professional practice.
Transversal Competences
Entrepreneurship and innovation
CT1 - Capability to know and understand a business organization and the science that defines its activity; capability to understand the labor rules and the relations between planning, industrial and commercial strategies, quality and profit.
Teamwork
CT3 - Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team, as a normal member or performing direction tasks, in order to develop projects with pragmatism and sense of responsibility, making commitments taking into account the available resources.
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
To determine the AI technologies, tools, architectures, and algorithms that would be most suitable for the Industrial applications.
Related competences:
CT6,
CG1,
CEP3,
CT1,
To be able to develop a set of criteria for AI applications development, and evaluate each of the identified applications in terms of this criteria
Related competences:
CG1,
CEP4,
CEP5,
To make short- and long-term recommendations for the industrial AI applications development and work in a multidisciplinary team
Related competences:
CT3,
CT6,
CG1,
Contents
Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
This part of seminar is a compendium of Artificial Intelligence applications naturally taking full advantage of the research potential of professors at Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Politÿcnica de Catalunya and Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the experience of their members in numerous R&D projects undertaken in recent years.
Face to face with the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Applications
Al is being used extensively in the business world. Its applications cross a wide spectrum. For example, Al is being applied in management and administration, science, engineering, manufacturing, financial and legal areas, military and space endeavors, medicine, and diagnostics.
Senior managers in many companies use Al-based strategic planning systems to assist in functions like competitive analysis, technology deployment, and resource allocation. They also use programs to assist in equipment configuration design, product distribution, regulatory-compliance advisement, and personnel assessment. Al is contributing heavily to management's organization, planning, and controlling operations, and will continue to do so with more frequency as programs are refined. AI is also influential in science and engineering.
In this part of the seminar students will be face to face with successful industrials that have been using AI techniques in their businesses
Introduction
Methodological issues and discussion about the general calendar.
Activities
Conferences with CEO's from AI industries
A cycle of conferences with CEOs will be organized so students get to know successful industrial histories that used Artificial Intelligence as their basis for success.
Theory
6
Problems
0
Laboratory
0
Guided learning
0
Autonomous learning
16
Theory: In each of the 4 sessions of this activity there it will be an invited guest that will be giving a talk about his business idea using Artificial Intelligence techniques
Autonomous learning: To study the available materials
Examples of Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence from R&D
The Artificial Intelligence applications developed for science and engineering are used to organize and manipulate the ever-increasing amounts of information available to scientists and engineers. The Artificial Intelligence is used in complex processes and it is the increased use of robotics in business.
In this part of the seminar we will study edge applications of Artificial Intelligence born as R&D results. Most of the examples will come from European Union funded research.
Theory
15
Problems
0
Laboratory
0
Guided learning
0
Autonomous learning
44
Theory: Each one of the study cases will have a material that will provided in advance. The student has to read it to be able to discuss its contents.
Also, the student has to prepare a paper of each one of them.
The students will be asked to choice one among the study cases and prepare a more detailed paper.
Autonomous learning: To read the provided materials and prepare the discussion
There it will be invited speakers from the industry --at least 4-- and up to 7 case studies of Artificial Intelligence Industrial applications.
The format will be a seminar with direct participation and reporting tasks.
Evaluation methodology
We will be asking all participants - through an evaluation questionnaire - how far they believed the seminar met the objectives.
Participants will be asked to provide papers evaluation each of the 7 seven relevant applications. There it will be a single note for 6 of the papers and another one for a paper selected by the student
Bibliografy
Basic:
Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications and Graphical Models. -
A. Mittal and A. Kassim (eds.), ,
2007.
ISBN: 9781599041419
Defense Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems -
Pechoucek, Michal; Thompson, Simon G.; Voos, Holge, Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing ,
2008.
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8570-5
Artificial Intelligence and Innovations 2007: From Theory to Applications -
Boukis, Christos; Pnevmatikakis, Aristodemos; Polymenakos, Lazaros, Springer Verlag ,
2007.
ISBN: 978-0-387-74160-4
* Processes for developing large and complex software systems
* Roles and technologies to help you control such projects
* Research-level issues in areas such as software engineering, information systems, simulation modelling, digital media and games, network computing and artificial intelligence.