COMP8620 Advanced Topics in Artificial intelligence
S26 units8000-level
This is an advanced postgraduate course that offers students the opportunity to study a special thematic area within the discipline of Artificial Intelligence. The topics will vary from year to year in response to emerging theoretical and practical issues in the discipline, as well as the research interests and expertise of academics and sessional staff. They will be drawn from the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, and could include (but not limited to) the following topics: Planning, Scheduling, Games, Search, Reasoning (constraint-based, model-based, spatial, temporal), Knowledge representation, Decision-making under uncertainty, Integrated planning and learning, Reinforcement learning, and Robotics. Please see the class website for the specific topics covered in a particular semester.
- 2024S2
- 2025S2
- 2026S2
- 2027S2
Prerequisites in 2026
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Incompatible with COMP4620: you can't count both.
The handbook's wording, and when it changed
To enrol in this course you must have completed COMP6320 or COMP3620 . Incompatible with COMP4620 .
To enrol in this course you must have completed COMP6320 or COMP3620 . Additional Prerequisite courses for the Advanced Topic will be listed on the SoCo website (Special Topics in Computing page ) when the course topic is announced. Students who meet the pre-requisites can request a permission code following the instructions for Enrolling in CSS courses . Incompatible with COMP4620 .
What it leads to in 2026
No course names COMP8620 in its 2026 prerequisites.