Dr. Rina Dechter, 424E Computer Science
dechter@ics.uci.edu

Chris Wesson ( cwesson@uci.edu )

Ming Bi ( mbi@ics.uci.edu )

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter/ics-6a/winter-04/index.html

Proffesor	Office	Hours
Dr. Rina Dechter:	CS 424E	Tue. and Thurs. 01:00pm - 02:00pm, and by appointment.
TAs
Chris Wesson:	ETC 116	Monday 2:00-3:00, Thursday 12:00-1:00, 116
Readers

Time:	Tuesday & Thursday, 02:00am - 03:20pm
Location:	ICS 180

Chris Wesson	Mondays/wednesdays 3:00-3:50pm	EIC 120

There is one required text for the course: Discrete Mathematics and its applications, Fifth Edition, by Kenneth H. Rosen (McGraw-Hill 1995).

There will be 8-9 homeworks and 7-8 quizzes. Most homeworks will be given on Tuesday and scheduled the following week. Quizzes will be given on Thursdays at the beginning of class. There will be one midterm and a final. The grading criteria for the course is:

• Homework assignments 10%
  
• Quizzes 40%
  
• Midterm 15%
  
• Final 35%
  

The best way to get your questions answered is by coming to lecture, section or office hours and asking them there. In addition, you can send email to ics6a-questions-dechter@ics.uci.edu which will automatically forward the mail to the TAs and myself. It is generally preferable to use this email address instead of our personal addresses because you are likely to get an answer to your question faster if it is sent to the three of us. If you ask a question by email which requires a lengthy response, we are likely to ask you to come in to discuss the answer in person.

Class announcements will be made in lecture and in section. Important announcements will also be posted on the class web page. The web page will contain the most up-to-date course information. Any corrections or additional explanations for the homework assignments will also be posted there, so please check the web page occasionally to stay up to date.

The homework solutions and other handouts will be made available at the lecture or on the course webpage.

On each Tuesday, a new homework assignment and the solution for the previous homework will be available after lecture. The new homework which is distributed in a given week will cover material covered in lecture that week and will be due the following Tuesday. This means that when you receive a new homework assignment, we will not have covered all of the material in lecture necessary to do the assignment, but will have covered everything by the end of Thursday's lecture. A quiz covering the same material will be given in class the following Thursday (two days, after handing out the solutions).

You should hand your homework in to class by 02:00 PM on Tuesday . Absolutely no homework assignments will be accepted after 02:00PM .

You can pick up your graded homeworks and quizes from the distribution center which is located in the ICS Trailers. The office hours for the distribution center are:

• Monday and Wednesday 11:00 - 3:00, Tuesday, 10:00-1:00, and Thursday and Friday, 12:00 - 3:00

If you have a question on how any of your quizzes or homeworks were graded, talk to the TAs, grader, or me during office hours or after section.

You are allowed, and even encouraged, to discuss the solutions to the homework with your fellow classmates. However, you are required to sit down and write up your own solutions independently. In addition, you need to write down the names of any classmates with whom you have collaborated on a given assignment, clearly indicating that they are your collaborators. Copying the homework assignment of another student is considered cheating. Keep in mind that the homework contributes little to your final grade in comparison to the quizzes. Thus, it is very much in your own best interest to have a thorough understanding of the homework assignments before the quiz.

All work done on quizzes, midterms and finals should be your own work. Cheating on any kind of in class examination will be taken very seriously. Any such incident will result in a letter describing the incident which is placed in your file on campus. Depending on the severity of the incident, the resulting grade can range from an F on the particular examination to an automatic F in the course. Very severe incidents of academic dishonesty can result in suspension or expulsion from the university.