Assessment
The assessment of students (throughout the semester) is composed of two components:
- Theory: 2 mini tests (on discrete and continuous domains), assessing the knowledge acquired by the students on the basic concepts taught (e.g. modelling, constraint propagation and search).
- Practice: 2 projects, that assess the ability of the students to apply and adapt the acquired knowledge to solve mid-sized constraint problems (on discrete and continuous domains),.
The final grade is the average of the Theory and Practice components, a minimum grade of 8.0 (in 20) being required in both (i.e. Theory: average of the 2 mini-tests and Practice: average of the 2 projects). A student obtains approval in the course if the final grade is no less than 9.5 (in 20).
The components of the assessment are the following (dates to be confirmed):
• MiniTest1 - Finite Domains - Thursday, 3 November, 18:00
• Project_1 - Finite Domains - announced on Monday, 17 October,
deadline Sunday, 6 November at 23:59
• MiniTest2 - Continuous Domains - Monday, 19 December, 18:00
• Project_2 - Continuous Domains - announced on Monday, 28 November ,
deadline Sunday, 18 December at 23:59
There is an optional exam, for students with a Practice component grade no less than 8.0. The exam has two parts (Finite and Continuous Domains - students may do only one part), whose grades replace the grades of the corresponding MiniTests (if not lower than the latter) in the computation of the final grade.
- Final Exam - Finite and Continuous Domains - Friday, 13 January, 09:00