Overview
Artificial intelligence is closely related to the field called soft computing which provides a foundation for the conception, design, and deployment of intelligent systems directed towards intelligence and autonomy. This unit introduces you to the fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence in the three prominent areas of fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks, and evolutionary computation. You will be introduced to topics of genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, and genetic programming. You will also be introduced to the most commonly used neural network paradigms. You will learn the concepts of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, and approximate reasoning, as part of fuzzy systems. The theoretical concepts will be reinforced with hands-on experience during computer lab tutorials.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: COIT20245 Introduction to Programming
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2024
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluations
Students found it challenging to transition to Python coding, particularly as many of their previous programming experiences were primarily in Java. This made it difficult to engage with the programming language specific content early in the term.
COIT20245 (Introduction to Programming), a core PG unit since Term 1 2024, now teaches Python, providing the necessary background for COIT20277. For students without this background, key Python concepts can be briefly reviewed in the first two weeks of term.
Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluations
Students expressed a desire for more detailed explanations and practical examples to better understand abstract or complex concepts covered in lectures.
Incorporate additional real-world examples and case studies into weekly lectures and tutorials to enhance conceptual understanding and application. These examples will be used to demonstrate key ideas and support learning outcomes.
Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluations
Some students noted that feedback on assessments could be more actionable and consistent in terms of clarity and usefulness.
Encourage a coordinated approach among teaching staff to ensure feedback is clear, specific, and consistently aligned with assessment criteria. The teaching team will implement a moderation process for assessment feedback to ensure it is constructive, consistent, and valuable for student learning and improvement.
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Create effective and efficient computational intelligence solutions to authentic problems
- Evaluate the solution to a computational intelligence problem, analysing the merits and demerits of the chosen approach
- Investigate the potential to enhance the model using one or more computational intelligence techniques.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA provides a consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments, and individuals in many countries and is increasingly used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html.
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
- Data modelling and design (DTAN)
- Software design (SWDN)
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
- Testing (TEST)
- Application Support (ASUP)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 45% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | |||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 45% | |||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Anaconda Data Science Platform (Individual - Free Distribution)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.jayal@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 08 Jul 2024Module/Topic
* Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
* Fundamental Use Cases for AI
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5
- Chapter 1 and 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 2
Begin Date: 15 Jul 2024Module/Topic
* Machine Learning Overview
* Supervised Learning: Classification
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 3.1 - 3.2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 3
Begin Date: 22 Jul 2024Module/Topic
* Supervised Learning: Regression
* Unsupervised Learning
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 3.3 - 3.4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 4
Begin Date: 29 Jul 2024Module/Topic
* Reinforcement Learning
* Responsible AI
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 3.6
Introduction to Responsible AI: Implement Ethical AI Using Python, Manure et al., 2023, ISBN 978-1-4842-9981-4:
- Chapter 1 and 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 5
Begin Date: 05 Aug 2024Module/Topic
* Heuristic Search Techniques:
- What is Heuristic Search?
- Uninformed vs. informed search
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 12 Aug 2024Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 6
Begin Date: 19 Aug 2024Module/Topic
* Deep Learning:
- AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Artificial Neural Networks
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 19
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 7
Begin Date: 26 Aug 2024Module/Topic
* Convolutional Neural Networks
- Architecture of CNNs
- Building an Image Classifier
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 20
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 4.3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 8
Begin Date: 02 Sep 2024Module/Topic
* Recurrent Neural Networks
* Other Deep Learning Models
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 21
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 4.3 - 4.8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 9
Begin Date: 09 Sep 2024Module/Topic
* Applications I - Image Recognition and Classification
- Face Recognition
- Object Detection and Segmentation
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 18
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 5, 6, and 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 10
Begin Date: 16 Sep 2024Module/Topic
* Applications II - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- NLP Concepts
- Chatbots
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 15 and 16
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 11
Begin Date: 23 Sep 2024Module/Topic
* Advanced AI Computing
- AI on the Cloud
- AI with Hardware Processing Units
Chapter
Artificial Intelligence with Python (2nd edition), Artasanchez and Joshi, ISBN 978-1-83921-953-5:
- Chapter 12
Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python - From Zero to Hero, 2022, Perry Xiao, ISBN 978-1-119-82086-4:
- Chapter 12
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 12
Begin Date: 30 Sep 2024Module/Topic
* Exam Review
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 07 Oct 2024Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 14 Oct 2024Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Unit Coordinator: Dr Ambi Jayal
Level 20, 160 Ann Street, Brisbane Campus
Email: a.jayal@cqu.edu.au (Preferred Contact)
1 Written Assessment
TASK DESCRIPTION
- Assignment 1 is designed to reinforce the knowledge and skills acquired in Week 1 to Week 4. It is an individual assessment to be submitted in Week 5.
- In this assessment, students are asked to analyse a given problem description and apply AI knowledge, particularly Machine Learning, to propose their solution. They will translate their solution into a computational algorithm, and implement the algorithm using Python and its libraries. Students will decide the AI method(s) to use in their solution. They are required to justify the choice of method(s) with adequate reasons.
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For this assessment, students will select one suitable dataset from the following options or any dataset that is publicly accessible:
UCI Machine Learning Repository: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/datasets
Australian Government Data: https://data.gov.au
Amazon: https://registry.opendata.aws/
Google: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/
Additionally, students need to record and submit a 5 to 7-minute video presentation summarizing their solution and explaining key concepts. The recorded video should be framed to include the presenter and their desktop.
- This assessment contributes to 30% of the total mark of the unit.
- It addresses the following unit learning outcomes:
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Create effective and efficient computational intelligence solutions to authentic problems
Week 5 Friday (9 Aug 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit online via the Moodle link
Week 6 Friday (23 Aug 2024)
Within 2 weeks of the due date or within 2 weeks of submission (whichever is the later)
The submission will be assessed based on the student's ability to:
- Decide the suitable AI method(s) for their solution to the given problem, and justify their choice of the methods
- Write correct Python code, include adequate comments, and discuss how their solution meets the requirements of the problem
- Discuss how responsible AI principles are used to develop their solution
The detailed marking criteria will be provided on the unit Moodle. Please ensure to read through the marking criteria carefully before submitting your work.
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Create effective and efficient computational intelligence solutions to authentic problems
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
2 Written Assessment
TASK DESCRIPTION
- Assignment 2 is designed to reinforce the knowledge and skills acquired in Week 5 to Week 7. It is an individual assessment to be submitted in Week 8.
- In this assessment, students are asked to analyse a given problem description and apply AI search techniques in their solution. They will explore both uninformed and informed (heuristic) search in their solution. Students are asked to discuss the pros and cons in applying either search technique in their solution, and compare the performance using metrics such as time and space complexities, execution time, accuracy, etc.
- This assessment contributes to 25% of the total mark of the unit.
- It addresses the following unit learning outcomes:
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Create effective and efficient computational intelligence solutions to authentic problems
- Investigate the potential to enhance the model using one or more computational intelligence techniques
Week 8 Friday (6 Sept 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit online via the Moodle link
Week 10 Friday (20 Sept 2024)
Within 2 weeks of the due date or within 2 weeks of submission (whichever is the later)
The submission will be assessed based on the student's ability to:
- Analyse the given problem and apply AI search techniques appropriately in their solution
- Write correct Python code, include adequate comments, and discuss how the solution and its output meet the requirements of the problem
- Discuss the pros and cons in applying either type of search technique in their solution, and compare the performance using metrics such as time and space complexities, execution time, accuracy, etc.
The detailed marking criteria will be provided on the unit Moodle. Please ensure to read through the marking criteria carefully before submitting your work.
- Create effective and efficient computational intelligence solutions to authentic problems
- Evaluate the solution to a computational intelligence problem, analysing the merits and demerits of the chosen approach
- Investigate the potential to enhance the model using one or more computational intelligence techniques.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
3 Written Assessment
- Assignment 3 is designed to reinforce the knowledge and skills acquired from Week 6 onwards on Deep Learning models and their applications. It is a group (min. 2 and max. 3 students each group) assessment to be submitted in Week 12.
- In this assessment, students are given a problem description which they will apply deep learning models in their solution. For example, the given problem could be on image classification, natural language processing, or other interesting applications. Students are asked to apply the concept of transfer learning using pre-trained models in their solution. The objective is to leverage the knowledge embedded in pre-trained models to enhance the performance of a model tailored for the given problem.
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For this assessment, students will select one suitable dataset from the following options or any dataset that is publicly accessible:
UCI Machine Learning Repository: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/datasets
Australian Government Data: https://data.gov.au
Amazon: https://registry.opendata.aws/
Google: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/
Additionally, students need to record and submit a 5 to 7-minute video presentation summarizing their solution and explaining key concepts. The recorded video should be framed to include the presenter and their desktop.
- This assessment contributes to 45% of the total mark of the unit.
- It addresses the following unit learning outcomes:
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Evaluate the solution to a computational intelligence problem, analysing the merits and demerits of the chosen approach
- Investigate the potential to enhance the model using one or more computational intelligence techniques
Week 12 Friday (4 Oct 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit online via the Moodle link
Feedback and marks for this assessment will be released on the certification date as this unit does not have an exam.
The submission will be assessed based on the student's ability to:
- Analyse the given problem and apply deep learning models in their solution
- Write correct Python code, include adequate comments, and discuss how the solution and its output meet the requirements of the problem
- Apply the concept of transfer learning using pre-trained models suitably in their solution
The detailed marking criteria will be provided on the unit Moodle. Please ensure to read through the marking criteria carefully before submitting your work.
- Model internal representation, performance criteria, and computational components identifying elements of authentic problems to apply neural, fuzzy or evolutionary computation
- Evaluate the solution to a computational intelligence problem, analysing the merits and demerits of the chosen approach
- Investigate the potential to enhance the model using one or more computational intelligence techniques.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
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