CS 540 - Artificial Intelligence in Design

Schedule - Spring 2009

Wednesday, 6:00-8:50,
Room 320, Fuller Labs, WPI campus.

*** Under Construction ***

Version: Wed Mar 11 21:35:31 EDT 2009

Prior to the first class, please read the papers requested!
See this page for details.

January 20 -- Spring semester graduate classes begin

Class  Date    Presentor  Topic                                  Creativity Project 
                                                                    Step Due

1      21 Jan  Dave	  Organization & Introduction            . 
.      28 Jan  --         ==postponed due to bad weather==       .
2	4 Feb  Jonathan   Redesign & Iterative Redesign          1 Key existing definitions
3      11 Feb  Mike, Hua  Hierarchically Guided Refinement       2 Can design programs be creative?
4      18 Feb  Josh	  Configuration                          3 List of creativity eval criteria 
5      25 Feb  Bill	  Constraint Satisfaction/Posting        4 Eval a product with criteria
6	4 Mar  Bob	  Failure Handling/Conflict Resolution   . 
7      11 Mar  Tom        Agents & Negotiation                   5 AI design program using criteria
8      18 Mar  Jonathan   Design by Modification/Adaptation      .
9      25 Mar  Bob        CBR/Analogy                            6 Critique design creativity paper
10	1 Apr  Josh	  Invention/Creativity                   . (Use creativity assessment tool) 
11	8 Apr  Bill	  Learning/Knowledge Compilation         7 Report on Tool & Result (debrief)
12     15 Apr  Mike, Hua  Decomposition/Grammars/GAs             8 Assess your prior work
13     22 Apr  Tom	  Functional Reasoning                   9 Possibility of creative design program
14     29 Apr  -	  Assorted                               .
                            NB. final Profile due.

May 1 --  Spring semester graduate classes end