CS 6/76120 - Spring 2007

Evolutionary Computation

Week Lecture Topics Assigned Reading Homework
1
(Jan 16/18)
  • Introduction to Evolutionary Computation
  • Internet Resources
    		•  Chapter 1
    Links    		  
    2
    (Jan 23/25)
  • Simple EAs
  • Reporting Results
    		•  Chapter 2
    Appendix A    		 Experiment 2.1
    Experiment 2.2
    3
    (Jan 30/1)    		 Simple EAs Chapter 2 Experiment 2.6
    Experiment 2.9
    4
    (Feb 6/8)    		 Optimizing Real Valued Functions Chapter 3 Experiment 3.1
    Experiment 3.2
    5
    (Feb 13/15)
  • Optimizing Real Valued Functions
  • Probability and Statistics
    		• Appendix B Experiment 3.5
    Experiment 3.6
    6
    (Feb 20/22)    		 Review Chapters 1-3  
    7
    (Feb 27/1)    		 Symbots Chapter 5  
    8
    (Mar 6/8)    		 Symbots Chapter 5  
    9
    (Mar 13/15)    		 Evolving Finate State Automata Chapter 6  
    10
    (Mar 20/22)    		 Bioinformatics Chapter 15  
    11
    (Apr 3/5)    		 Bioinformatics Chapter 15  
    12
    (Apr 10/12)    		 Fitting to Data Chapter 9  
    13
    (Apr 17/19)    		 Presentations    
    14
    (Apr 24/26)    		 Presentations    
    15
    (May 1/3)    		 Presentations    
    16 Final Project Presentations