Responsible Professor:

Miquel Sànchez i Marrè Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (IDEAI-UPC) Knowledge Engineering & Machine Learning Group (KEMLG) Dept. of Computer Science (CS) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech Campus Nord-Building OMEGA, 2nd floor, office 203 miquel@cs.upc.edu

Professors:

Timetable:

Course schedule:

ISP lecturing: from September 7^th, 2023 to December 22^th, 2023

Holidays: October 12^th, 2023 (festivity), November 2^th, 2023 (mid-term exams period), December 7^th, 2023 (bank holiday), December 25^th, 2023 - January 6^th, 2024 (Christmas holidays)

Final Exams/Works: January 8^th, 2024 - January 19^th, 2024

        Change of schedule: September 26^th, 2023 has a Monday schedule

Contents:

1.  Introduction: Description of the aims of the course. Description of the team works. Information about the IS project timeline. Deliverables of the IS project. Examples of past ISP projects

2. Problem Analysis: Problem Feature Analysis. Information/Data Analysis. Viability Analysis. Economic Analysis. Environmental and Sustainability Analysis.

3. Definition of the Intelligent System project issues: Definition of main goals of the IS project. Definition of sub-goals. Task Analysis.

4. Development of an Intelligent System Project: Project Management Technologies. Data/Information Extraction. Data Mining & Knowledge Acquisition Process. Knowledge/Ontological Analysis. Planning and selection of Intelligent/Statistical/Mathematical Methods/Techniques. Construction of Models and implementation of Techniques. Module Integration. Validation of Models/Techniques. Comparison of Techniques. Proposed Solution.

5. Intelligent System Project Output: Executive Summary. Project System Documentation: User's Manual, System Manual. Project Schedule (Gantt's Chart). The Project Time Sheet.

6. Intelligent Methods and Models: Review of main Intelligent Methods available.

7. Software tools: Review of main software tools available.

Course material

The “Racó de la FIB” is the Virtual Campus for you. There, you will find any announcement, change in the schedule, the project related information, the results of the evaluation of the project and final marks, etc. There you will also find a pointer to this WEB page of the course where you could find some other material (internet references, etc.) in electronic format

2023/2024 Sylabus (in the “Racó de la FIB”):

1. Introduction
2. Problem Analysis
3. Definition of the ISP Issues
4. Development of an Intelligent System Project
5. Intelligent System Project Output
6. Intelligent Methods and Models
7. Software Tools

The Intelligent System project will be developed by each teamwork of 4 or 3 people.
The project has 4 milestones (MS1: Definition of the Project, MS2: Midterm Reporting, MS3: Final software and documentation, MS4: Public Project Exposition and Defense) and the five associated deliverables of the project are:

MS1-D1 – Definition of the Project Document
MS1-D1 is due on: September 28^th, 2023

MS2-D2 – Midterm Document
MS2-D2 is due on: November 16^th, 2023

MS3-D3 – Final Document
MS3-D4 – Software Delivery
MS3-D3 and MS3-D4 are due on: January 14^th, 2024

MS4-D5 – Presentation slides document for the Public defense of the project
MS4-D5 is due on January 15^th, 2024

The final presentation and oral exposition of the Project, with the presence of all team members, will be done on January 15^th, 2024 (30 min. for each group) with the attendance of one Business professional (CEO, CTO, CFO, etc.) of a real ICT/AI company

Past ISP Projects

13/14

• Analysing and interpreting tweets related to weather: talking about the past or about the future, making some sentiment/mood analysis
• Detecting talks about topics of interest related to some business in the Linkedin Network (WhoTalk)

14/15

• A prediction system for bike and spot availabilities (Bicing predictor)

15/16

• A recommendation engine for movies. (BAGmovies)
• Image Search Engine for same style images
• PCC - Parrot Communication with children - An intelligent interaction system for children with difficult emotion expressing skills, through a flying drone with camera

16/17

• An online dating system based on "vk.com" (PartnerTIP)

17/18

• Robust Euro Notes Classification (Adversarial Attack-Defense)
• Meeting the right people
• A Classification System for fictional stories

18/19

• Answering Machine (Question Answering)
  
• Finding Lost Pets
• Cookit
• Deduplication engine
  

19/20

• Market Price Suggestion
  
• Multi-Modal Emotion Classifier
• Automatic Piano fingering through data-driven knowledge
• Gun Detection on images via MRCNN
• Sharesio (Secure and convenient photo sharing)
• An Intelligent System for Stock Market Prediction 

20/21

• Face Interpolator
• Midi to Tab: Automatic generation of guitar tablatures
  
• Money tracker
  

21/22

• Children History Generator
• Music Generator
• Automatic Mail Generator
• Person Counting System
• Tweet Analyzer
• Genie in the Market

• ArtIST (Artificial Image Style Transfer)
• Know Your Customer (KYC)
• Mean Meme Detector
• Music Style Classifier
• CoachMe
• SlamDunker: NLP Troll Detection
  

Evaluation

Honour Code (adapted from Stanford University Honor Code)

Resources for student learning

Basic References

Complementary References

• Russell, Stuart and Norvig, Peter. Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach. Prentice Hall, 2010, ISBN: 0-13-207148-7.
• John W. Creswell & J. David Creswell. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. SAGE Publications, Inc. Fifth Edition, 2018. ISBN: ‎ 978-1506386768
• Gary Thomas. How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017; Third edition. ISBN: ‎ 978-1473948877
• Robert McCarthy. Agile and Scrum: Unlock the Power of Agile Project Management, Lean Thinking, the Kanban Process, and Scrum. Independently published, july 2020. ISBN: 979-8671202885
• Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene. Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban. O'Reilly Media, 2014. ISBN: ‎ 978-1449331924
• IEEE Intelligent Systems JournaL
  
• International Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Applied Intelligence Journal. The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies.
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)

Internet Resources