Detailed Course Schedule

Week 1

Monday January 7	Administrivia	Syllabus, Guidelines, Topics
Wednesday January 9	Temporal Reasoning	Dechter, Chapter 12 (bring your textbook)

Week 2

Monday January 14
Wednesday January 16

Week 3

Monday January 21	No Class - Matin Luther King Day
Wednesday January 23

Week 4

Monday January 28
Wednesday January 30	Directional Consistency (Chapter 4)	Dechter's own slides

Week 5

Monday February 4	Finish Directional Consistency (Chapter 4) Start Tree Decomposition Methods (Chapter 9)	Chapter 4 Dechter's own slides Chapter 9 Dechter's own slides Structure-Based Methods (instructor's slide)
Wednesday February 6

Week 6

Monday February 11
Wednesday February 13

Week 7

Monday February 18
Wednesday February 20

Week 8

Monday February 25
Wednesday February 27

Week 9

Monday March 4	AND/OR trees (Robert)	AND/OR trees by Dechter & Mateescu
Wednesday March 6	AND/OR trees (Robert)	AND/OR trees by Dechter & Mateescu

Week 10

Monday March 11	Soft Constraints (Tony)	Chapter 9 + paper
Wednesday March 13	Soft Constraints (Tony)	Chapter 9 + paper

Week 11: Spring Break

Monday March 18	No Class - Spring Break
Wednesday March 20	No Class - Spring Break

Week 12

Monday March 25	Optimization (Nate)	Chapter 13
Wednesday March 27	Optimization (Nate)	Chapter 13

Week 13

Monday April 1	Probabilistic Networks (Daniel G.)	Chapter 14
Wednesday April 3	Probabilistic Networks (Daniel G.)	Chapter 14

Week 14

Monday April 8	Constraint Scheduling (Fikayo)	Chapt 22 Handbook, Section 22.1
Wednesday April 10	Constraint Scheduling (Fikayo)	Chapt 22 Handbook, Section 22.3, (Section 22.5?)

Week 15

Monday April 15	Tractable Languages (Zion)	Chapt 11 of Dechter's textbook
Wednesday April 17	Tractable Languages (Zion)	Chapt 11 of Dechter's textbook

Week 16 - Dead Week

Monday April 22	Hypertree Decomposition (Daniel D.)
Wednesday April 24	Hypertree Decomposition (Daniel D.)

Week 17 - Finals Week

Thursday May 2 (7:30--9:30 AM)