UNIT 016 h allocated
Search and heuristics
- State spaces
- breadth-first and uniform-cost search
- A-star
- admissibility
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MACHINE LEARNING / SPECIALIST
AI210Classical AI: search, reasoning & planning
24 h productive allocation9 h 36 m learning + 14 h 24 m training4 units · 1 assessed practical brief
Detailed course plan and training brief. A complete taught course pack is in preparation. The linked foundation module, where shown, is a smaller available resource.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
A clear starting point.
Specialist studio; environment and faculty must be confirmed before scheduling
WHAT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE
- Explain the assumptions and failure modes in search and heuristics.
- Complete the practical: implement a small route-planning or constraint-solving problem and compare two search strategies using explicit costs.
- Defend the resulting problem specification with reproducible evidence.
THE SUBJECTS / FOUR CONNECTED UNITS
What you will study.
UNIT 026 h allocated
Knowledge representation
- Propositional logic
- rules
- ontologies
- inference
UNIT 036 h allocated
Planning and constraints
- Goals and actions
- constraint satisfaction
- scheduling
- search costs
UNIT 046 h allocated
AI-system design
- Symbolic versus learned components
- uncertainty
- hybrid systems
- task-based evaluation
THE TRAINING STUDIO
Make the subject
visible in your work.
Implement a small route-planning or constraint-solving problem and compare two search strategies using explicit costs.
Evidence to produce
- Problem specification
- search trace
- correctness tests
- complexity comparison
Training brief for supervised delivery. Code, datasets, answer keys and environment acceptance must be completed in the full course pack before delivery is confirmed.
ASSESS THE REASONING
A question you
should be able to answer.
Why is a learned predictor not a substitute for every search or reasoning task?
Review dimensions
Technical correctness · reproducibility · interpretation of results · failure analysis · individual explanation. Course-level rubric and faculty moderation form part of the final adopted teaching pack.
External reference access, hardware, cloud accounts and paid services are separate. No third-party certification is included by implication.