artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Tibor Bosse

FACULTY OF SCIENCES

Overview

• Master Specialisations• General facts

• Duration, Credit Points, …

• Graduation project

• Job perspectives

• Financial Issues

Specialisations

• Cognitive Science

• Human Ambience (started 2010/11)

• Computational Intelligence & Selforganisation

• Technical Artificial Intelligence

• Knowledge Technology & Intelligent Internet Applications

• International Semantic Web Master

Cognitive Science

(Co-operation between FPP en FEW)

What is Cognitive Science?

Two main goals:

• AI Psy

(Use AI-techniques to study cognitive processes)

• Psy AI

(Use cognitive processes to make computers more intelligent)

AI Psychology

The approach (roughly):

1. Starting point: Psychological theory

2. Formalise as a Computer model

3. Make predictions based on this model

4. Compare predictions with reality (empirical data)

5. Difference: Improve theory

AI Psychology: Master Project

• Master Project: Rianne van Lambalgen

• Supervisors: Sander Los (Psy) &Tibor Bosse (AI)

• Result: computer model for conditioning– Kind of associative learning– Example: reaction to starting signal (“ready…

go”)

AI Psychology: Master Project

What is Cognitive Science?

Two main goals:

• AI Psy

(Use AI-techniques to study cognitive processes)

• Psy AI

(Use cognitive processes to make computers more intelligent)

Psychology AI

Approach (roughly):1. Inspiration: Psychological theory2. Formalise as a computer model3. Integrate model into system

– To exhibit human behaviour(eg Computer person)

– To provide knowledge about humans(eg Personal Assistant)

4. Evaluate the system’s behaviour

Psychology AI: Master Project

• Master Project: Jeremy Soumokil• Supervisor: Mark Hoogendoorn• Goal: build an opponent for an online game,

who anticipates players’ moves. • Method: using the concept “Theory of Mind”

– Reason about what the player is thinking– Predict actions of the player, and anticipate on

this


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• Game setting

Psychology AI: Master Project• BDI model

Human Ambience(started 2010-2011)

What is Human Ambience?

• New Master program

• Based on the idea of ‘Ambient Intelligence’

• Develop an Intelligent Environment, which supports the human in his/her daily life

• Intelligent Car

• Intelligent House

• Intelligent Workspace

• Intelligent Phone

• …

Human Ambience - Courses

– 30 ECTS specialisation in discipline or topic• Criminology• Health• Mental functioning• Movement sciences• Social functioning

– Specific Human Ambience courses:• HA Innovation• Model-Based Intelligent Environments

Computational Intelligence and Self Organisation

Ziezo!

What is CISO?

• Two main themes:

• Computational Intelligence• Evolutionary Computing

• Data Mining Techniques

• Self-organising distributed systems• Advanced Selforganisation

• Model and Analyse these systems

Inspiration – Bird Flocking

Different Profiles• Biology

– Dynamic Energy Budgets, Evolutionary genetics, Evolutionary Biology

• Bio-informatics– Algorithms for Genomes, Bioinformatics data

analysis and tools, Intercellular Networks, Computational Genomics and Proteomics

• Computer systems– Distributed Systems, Cluster and Grid Computing,

Distributed Algorithms• Knowledge representation

– Intelligent Web Applications, Ontology Engineering

CISO: Example Master Project

Master Project: Self-organised train dispatching

Supervisor: Martijn Schut

Organisation: Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)

Goal: Reducing secondary delay

Problem: too complex to plan

Solution: self-organisation, modelling...

Technical Artificial Intelligence

What is Technical AI?• Only for students with Ba Computer Science!

• AI: trying to realise human intelligence on a computer

• AI: different perspectives– cognitive psychology– theoretical logic

– technical computer science

Goals TAI• Getting familiar with developments within AI and

CS

• Learning how to make Intelligent Applications

• Design eg.

• A knowledge based system

• A multi-agent system

• A learning system …

TAI: Example Master Project

• Master Project: Sven Stam

• Supervisor: Tibor Bosse

• Goal: design ‘norm enforcing’ agent to prevent bullying in virtual societies

• Method:• agent-based modelling

• ‘follow’ detection module

• language processing module

• reputation maintainance module

TAI: Example Master project

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Knowledge Technology andIntelligent Internet Applications (KTIIA)

The programme focuses on

• knowledge technology: the technical aspects of designing knowledge systems• knowledge management: organisational aspects of knowledge creation, distribution,

application and maintenance • applications of techniques from knowledge technology and

knowledge management to the Internet.

What is KTIIA?

Example projects:an academic hospital:

modelling of medical protocols for illnesses of infants

an Internet company: recommendations about products on the Web

an accountancy checking for: fraud detection

a personal start-up:knowledge-based advisor for stopping with smoking

Dutch search engine company: Semantic Web search engine

WEB as a big knowledge base:“Semantic Web”

Techniques from AI are crucial for this new generation of the Web.

Semantic Web

Hot!

KTIIA: Example Master Project

• Project: Jacopo Urbani• Supervisor: Frank van Harmelen• Goal: reasoning over billions of information

units on the web of data• Tool: using cluster of 100s of machines

– Split data– Do reasoning on parts of the data– Shuffle data around...

• Result: fastest existing reasoner with webdata

KTIIA: Example Master Project

European Academy for Semantic-Web Education (EASE)

European-level Master of Science (MSc)

Wouldn’t this be nice? (I)

Shared Master = Double Degree

Wouldn’t this be nice? (II)

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Curriculum of the Shared Master

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Specialisations

• Cognitive Science

• Human Ambience (started 2010/11)

• Computational Intelligence & Selforganisation

• Technical Artificial Intelligence

• Knowledge Technology & Intelligent Internet Applications

• International Semantic Web Master

Overview






General Facts

• 2 years• 120 ects: 30 ects - for a graduation project• Optional space depends on variant 25-45 ects • Many other departments involved (Economy, Law,

Linguistics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Social Sciences)

General Facts

• For each variant mandatory (24 ects):– Knowledge management and Modelling– Evolutionary Computing– Behaviour Dynamics– Qualitative research Methods– Scientific Writing in English

(+ graduation project 30 ects)

Graduation project

• Last 6 months – Master Project

• 30 credit points

• Internal or External

• End product: Master Thesis

Job perspectives

• Examples:– Development of intelligent websites– Management of knowledge within organisations– Development of virtual agents in (serious) games– Consultancy on different aspects of planning– Various data-mining applications– Development of support systems for elderly– Development of support systems for medical patients– …

• Both Companies and ResearchOwn Company

University

Summary

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Go to:

http://www.few.vu.nl/onderwijs/masters/ai/

Overview






Pre-master: tuition fee and study duration• In 2011-2012, students can follow a Pre-master by paying a fee that is equal to the ‘wettelijk tarief’: € 1732.

• This pre-master year does not count for the ‘nominal study duration’.

• From 2011-2012 the rules will change. As soon as we know more, you will find this on www.vu.nl/collegegeld. Advice: finish your Pre-master in ’11/’12!

• Plans: students who study longer than the nominal study duration, will pay an increased tuition fee.

• Nominal study duration for HBO students = HBO + 1 additional year and Master + 1 additional year

Master: tuition fee and study duration

• Any student who wants to do a second Master, will have to pay ‘instellingscollegegeld’ (= € 12.000 per year)

• If you are doing two Masters simultaneously, then this will NOT hold, as long as both Masters are finished before September 2013. • Plans: students who study longer than the nominal study duration, will pay an increased tuition fee (about € 3000 extra).

• Nominal study duration = standard duration of Bachelor + 1 year and standard duration of Master + 1 year

• The ‘wettelijk tarief’ is € 1732.

Questions and Up-to-date Information

• Stand of the Student Administration

• www.vu.nl/collegegeld • [email protected]

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