Artificial intelligence meets software engineering in the classroom

We aimed to assess the reliability of teaching Artificial Intelligencefor Software Engineering master students. We propose a semi-interactive course where the students have to develop applications for solving real world problems by using various intelligent tools. We try to integrate these two disciplines, since both deal with modeling of the real case studies, sharing some common elements.We report on a study that we conducted on observing student teams as they develop AI-based applications. We validate the proposed semi-interactive course by using various criteria. In addition, we checked if some best practices from industrial teams are followed by our students.

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