(2nd Level Master in Data Science for Economics, Business, and Finance, University of Milan, 2018)

Lecturer: Dr. Nicola Basilico

The course is terminated, please contact the lecturer for additional information or material.

This short course provides a 10-hours introduction to some basic AI techniques: search, MDPs, and games. The course has been held in cooperation with the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan.

• A general introduction to AI (May 17th 2018, 2 hours)
• Introduction to problem modeling and basic search techniques (June 7th 2018, 4 hours)
• Sequential decisions under uncertainty: an overview of MDPs (June 9th 2018, 2 hours)
• Search with adversaries, minimax, alpha-beta pruning (June 30th 2018, 2 hours)