Term Paper

Expectations:

A term paper is an academic research paper that should showcase the depth of understanding of the topics in the course and the applicability of ideas in real-world problem solving.

Hence, it is expected that the term paper would propose the application of the concepts/ideas developed throughout the course on some real-world problem and provide a possible solution.

The main components of the term paper are:

1. Problem definition:

   • The problem statement should match the spirit of this course and should be in-line with the different concepts discussed in the course.

2. Evaluation of the solution:

   • The proposed solution must be evaluated on different settings/scenarios to establish the robustness, generality and efficiency of the solution.

3. Results:

   • Proper insights into the results arrived at must be provided and discussed in the term paper 

   • Results form the most crucial element of a term paper

Objective:

The main objective of a term paper is to make the students acquainted with the academic literature and enable them to apply the ideas into the real-world. Further, the students should understand how to evaluate their solutions and establish its efficiencies/deficiencies.

Various sources/venues for finding the latest AI research:

(This is a limited list, many more good sources of latest AI research is available)

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

• Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IRoS)

• AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

• International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)

• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

• Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS)

• Artificial Intelligence Journal

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)