T-79.5102 Special Course in Computational Logic

Tentative Schedule (Autumn 2005)


Period I

Lecture 1 (12.9.2005)
Introduction
Refresher on propositional logic
Lecture 2 (19.9.2005)
Binary decision diagrams
Home assignment 1
Lecture 3 (26.9.2005)
Davis-Putnam method
Lecture 4 (3.10.2005)
Implementing the Davis-Putnam method
Lecture 5 (10.10.2005)
Local (stochastic) search methods
Lecture 6 (17.10.2005)
Planning as a satisfiability problem
Home assignment 2

Period II

Lecture 7 (31.10.2005)
Monotonic rule-based reasoning
Lecture 8 (7.11.2005)
Non-monotonic rule-based reasoning
Lecture 9 (14.11.2005)
Planning as a stability problem
Some properties of stable models
Home assignment 3
Lecture 10 (21.11.2005)
Implementation techniques
Lecture 11 (28.11.2005)
From stability to propositional satisfiablity
Review of lectures
No lecture (5.12.2005)
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