Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence
Tibor Bosse FACULTY OF SCIENCES
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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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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

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Cognitive Science (Co-operation between FPP en
FEW)
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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)?

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AI ? Psychology

• The approach (roughly)
• Starting point Psychological theory
• Formalise as a Computer model
• Make predictions based on this model
• Compare predictions with reality (empirical
  data)?
• Difference Improve theory

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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 (readygo)?

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AI ? Psychology Master Project
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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)?

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Psychology ? AI

• Approach (roughly)
• Inspiration Psychological theory
• Formalise as a computer model
• Integrate model into system
• To exhibit human behaviour
• (eg Computer person)?
• To provide knowledge about humans
• (eg Personal Assistant)?
• Evaluate the systems behaviour

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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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Psychology ? AI Master Project

• Screenshot

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Psychology ? AI Master Project

• Game setting

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Psychology ? AI Master Project

• BDI model

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Human Ambience(started 2010-2011)?
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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

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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

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Computational Intelligence and Self Organisation
Ziezo!
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What is CISO?

• Two main themes
• Computational Intelligence
• Evolutionary Computing
• Data Mining Techniques
• Self-organising distributed systems
• Advanced Selforganisation
• Model and Analyse these systems

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Inspiration Bird Flocking
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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

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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...
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Technical Artificial Intelligence
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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

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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

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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

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TAI Example Master project

• Screenshot

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Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Internet
Applications (KTIIA)?
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What is 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.

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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-upknowledge-based advisor for
  stopping with smoking
• Dutch search engine company Semantic Web search
  engine

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Semantic Web
WEB as a big knowledge baseSemantic
Web Techniques from AI are crucial for this new
generation of the Web.
Hot!
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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

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KTIIA Example Master Project ?
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KTIIA Example Master Project ?
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European Academy for Semantic-Web Education
(EASE)
European-level Master of Science (MSc)?
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Wouldnt this be nice? (I)?
Shared Master Double Degree
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Wouldnt this be nice? (II)?
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Curriculum of the Shared Master
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Master Project
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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

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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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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)?

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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)?

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Graduation project

• Last 6 months Master Project
• 30 credit points
• Internal or External
• End product Master Thesis

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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 Research

University
Own Company
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Summary

• This is more information than you can grasp
• Go to
• http//www.few.vu.nl/onderwijs/masters/ai/

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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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Overview

• Master Specialisations
• General facts
• Duration, Credit Points,
• Graduation project
• Job perspectives
• Financial Issues

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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

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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.

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Questions and Up-to-date Information

• Stand of the Student Administration
• www.vu.nl/collegegeld
• studentenbalie_at_dienst.vu.nl